Yes I understand the cache is the main source of the performance gain. The cache on this specific card is 2GB. Still impressive to see from a tech that is so old and running PCIe gen 1 perform so well.
Here is a 22GB file coping over to NVME disk. There was a delay to the start of the copy...
1680IX with one drive now tested in SLOT 4 of Dell T5810 which allows the card to run x8 mode. Still better performance whch I was not expecting. Read and write performance improved even at small file sizes. Now reads max out at 1.2GB/s! No wonder people liked these for performance...
Performance of 1680iX with just 1 drive attached. Did not think it would make any difference going directly or via card but the performance is way better via the raid card. I tried with cache disabled and read ahead disabled and made no difference. Again surprising as i would expect that was...
I know this is old but came across this in but didn't have enough info to get it working.
This is for Arc-1680IX - might apply to other cards with expanders.
Using extraputty
Connect and press enter
Pasword is 0000
Try sys command for info
To program you need to erase first
CLI>ER...