I’ve been see your reviews about LSI 9265 and Areca 1880ix-12 and I have a few questions about them:
I understand that Areca is amazingly fast because our large cache,but I would know how LSI 9265 performs on the same level with Areca (with write back and read ahead features).
Could you tell me what difference is noticeble in real life (without benches) on LSI 9265 vs Areca 1880ix-12/4Gb both with read ahead and write back cache enable? I mean…aplications loading,installing games,etc…
I’m owner of a 3ware 9690SA-8i (with BBU) and I know that this controller is much slower,specifically in 4k random read/writes because his firmware seems to be made for sequencial jobs and I want to put other controller but don’t know what to choose…LSI 9265 or Areca 1880ix-12/4Gb + BBU…what do you recommend?

Regards from Ricardo, from Portugal.

SITE RESPONSE: Hello Ricardo. Thank you for taking the time to write and may we suggest you post the question in our forums as it can be tackled by many who have experience with above. Thanks ahead!