Corsair 800D hotswap bay...

[xartin]

Is getting an upgrade




Now of i can find 5TB of disk to use temporarily to backup data I can finally use my LSI 9260-4i sata3 raid controller with four seagate barracuda XT drives. Benchmark soon =D


Silly me... yeah I forgot i don't have to look far for 5TB of free space

Frankenstein to the rescue!

[Tim]

Hey there!

Yea I contacted them and they are sending me a new hotswap backplane PCB set. I just emailed somebody at Corsair and BAM, getting it, no need to send or prove anything.

Let me know how it goes!

[xartin]

Well I finally got the 6GB/s upgrade kit installed and my raid5 setup on my long overdue LSI 9260-4i SATA3+SAS2 raid controller

Results? using a 256KB stripe size (the default 64kb stripe size revealed performance levels that were suprisingly below my expectations for read/write on a raid5) i'm nearly topping out at 380-400MB/s read and write transfer rates with a 4 drive raid5 array.

350MB/s+ write speeds with a 4 drive mechanical raid5 is really mind blowing fast. I did a real world test moving 100GB from two western digital black 1TB sata3 drives onto the LSI raid5 simultaneously and the raid 5 array literally devoured everything the WD drives could offer. well over 210MB/s and the LSI raid5 hadn't maxed out on 60% of it's bandwidth.

transferred over 1.2TB of data in just over an hour from two single sata3 drives to the LSI SATA3 raid5...

The sequential read performance with a 4 drive raid0 was just a wee bit over 500MB/s in HD Tune Pro which was enough to make my knees tingle with nerdlust... while this is all grand having an 8TB raid0 I prefer the redundancy of raid5.

Maybe next year i'll buy a four 256GB sata3 ssd's.


Here's some of my recent benchmark results... the HD Tune Pro file benchmark really suprised me with a 64MB file size and transfer rates over 1.7GB/s

Next project to finish once and for all.. Hydro the beast.