We've used the LSI 9260-8i for the past year to test multiple drive RAID arrays. The choice was pretty clear after testing the 9260-8i against several other hardware RAID controllers since it offered ...

I've been running a 4 drive RAID 5 array (4x300GB drives) on this hardware controller since March 2006 with no problems. Two nights ago I added a 5th hard drive to the array/logical drive. My array ...

RAID controllers are a lot of things to different people. Some like me, a power user, is able to tune the RAID block size for general use computing, balancing the small file IOPS with large sequential ...

Lately, the AMI / LSI Logic MegaRAID Elite 1600 and OEM versions from Dell have been very popular amongst SCSI enthusiasts. Unfortunately, many people are complaining about poor write and read ...

Figure 1. SuperMicroâ s CSE-M28 Mobile Rack fits into two 5.25-in drive bays adding eight 2.5-in hot swappable drive bays. I used Avago Technologies’ LSI MegaRAID 9361-8i (Fig. 2) to control the eight ...