Data Fever: Ultra320 SCSI from Adaptec and LSI Logic

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I/O Performance

With the smaller block sizes, the transfer rates are less interesting. The I/O performance is what's meaningful here.

LSI's 20320R is able to maintain an ever so slight lead over the Adaptec controller up to a queue depth of 16 blocks. Starting with 32 accesses in direct succession, however, the Adaptec 39320D-R increases its tempo further, while the LSI's performance starts to lag somewhat.

With 4 kB blocks, it's a similar picture. The only thing that changes is that the performance of the LSI lags somewhat more.

Blocks of 8 kB bring the same results as with 4 kB - except the values are slightly less.

Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.