I suspect some (more) modern gear will do wonders for reaching wire speed here.
As I clock up ol'betsy and the bus and the 4GB of DDR2 ram, IB wants to climb out further, but the host continues to clip it off.
This platform has been very solid performer for me for many years but it is showing its age. I am reminded of Scott: "I'm given er all she's got cap'n an caint give er no more!" hehe...
She did manage to touch 1600MB/s reads in Atto. But all metrics continue to climb.
Anvil...
Atto...
CDM...
HDTune...
IMHO, I am simply hardware bound on this host. Time to modernize the lab I suppose. Technology refreshes are a fun (albeit costly) hobby.
All-in-all, I am well pleased. Seeing ~12.5 Gbps out of 16 effective is fine by me. Particularly given the aging gear this test was conducted on.
IMHO, for their performance/value point, they would serve a data hungry consumer (who requires a high speed fabric) pretty darn well.
Perhaps that technology refresh will have to include a couple ConnectX 40Gb cards for braggin' rights
P.S. I would enjoy seeing your guys numbers when you get them setup. Maybe better served in a more purposed thread.
peace,