LSI SAS Raid Speed

I m courrious about how hight the transferspeed is going with the onboard controller.
I need 400 mb/s - this meight be realistic with 3 - 4 SAS HD in Raid 0 - but is the LSI controller able to provide this amount of data. How is the controller connected to the motherboard? PCI-e (x2) ?
Any experience with SATA and SAS Raid?
Thank you for sharing your experience.
Michael
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martindishwater wrote:
are there any differences in performance between using LSI controller ports or the intel controller ports or reasons to chose one instead of the other?
overall the LSI controller seems faster, even with SATA drives. since there are five total HDD bays on the D10, you can use the five LSI ports (bottom row with blue connectors) for HDDs and the intel ports (upper row with black connectors) for optical drives.
(edit: typo)
Message Edited by erik on 08-27-2008 04:23 PM
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