Recent content by Quaraxkad

Nope, not a typo, I just left out one detail. I am using three 16e cards, and each 24-bay chassis has a pair of 3x SFF-8088 to SFF-8087 adapters on the back panel. So there are six SFF-8087 ports inside each case.

I ran all tests on the server itself, of course. Not over the network. I would feel pretty stupid if that's what I had done... On my 1Gbps network... I did experiment with IOMeter again last night, and got much better results... So I may have spoken too soon regarding the reliability of that...

I have a 4U server with 24 drives (36 actually including a second chassis, but for testing and simplicities sake I'm working with just the 24 in the main chassis for now). I've had a number of hardware configurations in this system; Motherboards, CPUs, HBA controller cards, RAID controllers, SAS...