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May 20, 2015
Spinning rust at 10,000 RPM.
1 of 1 found this helpful Spinning rust, at 10,000 RPM. All of its attributes are quite easily expected; linear transfer rates are quite good, but random seeking leaves a bit to be desired. Capacity is a bit low for cost, as has always been the case for SCSI and SAS drives. When set up in a RAID (7 disks RAID 6 in my testing) configuration, the combined performance can be quite good. Being an SAS, don't forget that SATA host controllers are incapable of initializing them. They also get very, very hot. I've had a couple of these exceed 90C temperature after a fan failure, and they still work perfectly fine (they were idle at the time; the results may have been different if under load). Very shock sensitive when operating. Despite their laptop-like form factor (with even smaller platters), the high rotational speeds ensure that when things go wrong, they go wrong very quickly. Mount in a drive array for safest results; most people considering these are probably stuffing HP SmartArrays anyhow.
Jun 14, 2020
Good board with an extra FE port, but not compatible without a VXR backplane.
Controller card works great, and provides an additional FE port over the factory installed board in a Cisco 7206. However, if you are planning to use this with a Cisco 7206, you will also need to install an updated backplane from a 7206VXR. This should also enable you to make use of the 2x GbE network processing module on the other side of the machine, for even more non-expansion-card-consuming high-speed ethernet ports, and more expansion card options.
If used with a non-VXR backplane, the system will not fully boot, yielding cryptic error messages.
Notes on backplane installation:
Remove *all* cards
Remove power supplies
Unscrew the large captive screws concealed within the chassis, behind the power supplies, about halfway into the case.
Disconnect the fan power cable
Slide the chassis out of the casing
Remove the many screws holding the backplane to the chassis
Might as well clean out an dust while you're in there, these beasts are a bit old.
Should take about 20 minutes; reassembly should be straightfoward (simply reverse of disassembly). Don't forget the fan power cable.
Mar 27, 2012
Great card overall, $/performance is good, decent overclocking potential.
So far, this thing has been great... was building a cost/performance oriented rig (Supermicro X7DWT, 4GB DDR2 667 FB-DIMMS, 2x Xeon 5148 @ 2.33GHz) all strewn out on my desk, as this won't fit in a normal case).
This card is able to run 1920x1080 in all of the older games i've played (Mostly Counter-Strike Source), with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic filtering turned up fairly high. Upgrading to a BSEL modded Xeon L5420 (now running at 3.2GHz vs 2.5Ghz stock) has yielded a 3DMark Vantage score of around 11,000, thanks to the overclocking potential of the CPU and this video card.
I have two now, so I can do some SLI when I get a board with more than 1 PCI-E slot (major disadvantage to the above mentioned X7DWR, which also lacks a sound card)
Highly recommended product.