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all right guys I promised ages ago some

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monster results with this LSI 9280 8i

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raid card and if you're a student enough you'll be able to see in the background

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of the card itself you can see I've got the battery backup unit here as well as

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the uh the key that gives me access to their fast path fast path feature which

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is optimizing for ssds as well as cash Cade which uses ssds to optimize the

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performance of your hard drive array so I promised you monster numbers I have

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finally come through sorry it's taken so long to get this together but there you

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have it when you raid together eight ocz

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vertex 2 60 gig drives they are capable

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of achieving 1.3 gab per second read

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that's a sequential read so it's not all that indicative of performance but it's

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still quite impressive now bear in mind I did promise you guys uh more than

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anything else more than 1 GB pers second read speeds so that's what I have

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optimized all of my RAID settings for you can see are eight identical ocz

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vertex 2 drives here and they are running very randomly off of the

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controller here so I've got these long cables just running all over the place

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but uh yeah bear in mind like I said I

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could be optimizing for certain other uh other performance but what I've really

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gone for here is massive sequential reads and uh it has finally been

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achieved so just for comparison one of these ssds alone is capable of about

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260 g megabytes per second read actually

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hold on let me just uh find that 285 285

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so you pair together or throw together eight and we're really reaching the

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maximum of what a raid card like this can provide which is actually one of the

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best raid cards on the market in terms of SSD performance so if you were using

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a lesser raid card uh or in fact okay why don't we start with onboard raid if

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you're using onboard raid that is i1r the RAID controller built into your

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Intel motherboard you're going to cap out around 600 mb per so adding a

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high-end dedicated controller like this Nets you as you can see much better

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performance so it doesn't matter how many you hook up past about three you're

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not going to get any additional scaling whereas with this particular card we can

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keep going all the way up to the maximum number of connectors we have and we

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continue to get better performance now some other raid cards will scale again

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better than onboard but not quite this well so this is one of the best examples

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uh big thanks to LSI for helping us do this little uh demonstration of what we

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can have in the future if storage technology keeps going the way that it

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is very impressive