On Dec 22, 2004, at 12:41 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>> get "expected" performance from those boxes. They seem to do
>> something to the RAID controllers to make them not work as fast as one
>> would expect the equivalent name-brand part (eg, LSI RAID card or
>> Adaptec RAID card) and similar disk drives.
>
> Hate to burst your bubble, but the RAID controller that Dell ships is
> an Adaptec OEM. Dell just rebrands them.
They also rebrand LSI. I'm saying that the versions they sell don't
seem to perform as well as the manufacturer branded ones from what I've
compared with other folks.
Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
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