Highpoint RocketRaid 3520

That is one of the new hardware cards from Highpoint, a first for them. They've done everything else good, I expect the same form this series. I say try it, and bench it for us!
 
wow, that review sure has found a way to stoop to a new level of suck:

  • Look at their HDTach scores. They look only at the cached read results. Everybody -ought- to know that they are pretty much useless. Not even listing the average STR or access time makes that absolutely worthless.
  • Two `benchmarks' total? With one run each?! Wow, that sure is representative, especially since they compared it to so many alternatives

I would not use that review in any way to make my purchasing decision.
 
yeh i saw that review the other day, one of the most inept i can remember in my life.

how do ppl so clueless even get a gig to review hardware.....over 700mb/s STR from 4 drives in raid 0 rofl ...u couldn't make it up :)

he was so dumb he couldn't even change the cluster size to use all 8 drives at once under XP re the 2TB limit, even with hightechs advice.

the card should be a great performer, IOP341 is overkill for a 8 port card really but even still it's at a nice price anyway.
 
What kind of speeds would i get with that card and 3 or 4 WD 500GB hard drives in raid 5 in windows server 2003.
 
Well, god only knows till someone actually reviews it properly... the techwarelabs numbers are totally wacky, not to mention impossible on four of those drives.
 
Wibla said:
Well, god only knows till someone actually reviews it properly... the techwarelabs numbers are totally wacky, not to mention impossible on four of those drives.
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What do u mean by "not to mention impossible on four of those drives."?
 
They tested the array with 4 500GB drives, those drives may hit 60-70MB/s tops each, so having a 4 drive array reaching 700+MB/s is nonsense.

"High Point 3520 Raid Array 4 x 500GB Maxtor SATA II" - 749MB/s

If I test "timing cached reads" with hdparm on my 3ware array, I get 920MB/s... which is nonsense, when I bench it properly with bonnie++ I get 350MB/s read and 130MB/s write.. abit more realistic on an old 3ware with 9 drives.
 
Wibla said:
They tested the array with 4 500GB drives, those drives may hit 60-70MB/s tops each, so having a 4 drive array reaching 700+MB/s is nonsense.

"High Point 3520 Raid Array 4 x 500GB Maxtor SATA II" - 749MB/s

If I test "timing cached reads" with hdparm on my 3ware array, I get 920MB/s... which is nonsense, when I bench it properly with bonnie++ I get 350MB/s read and 130MB/s write.. abit more realistic on an old 3ware with 9 drives.
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I get around 2000MiB/s with hdparm cached reads.. it is absolutely irrelevant, as you said.
 
Soo...has anyone benched this card? Im waiting to see if i should get it or not.
 
found this old thread, this looks like a card i could be buying for work for a server to use in raid 10 with 6 x 500G Segatae ES.2 drives (they are dam fast) If i do get it, i will be sure to do some testing on it for sure
 
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