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1. LSI MEGARAID STORAGE MANAGER DOWNLOAD SERVER 2012 R2 DRIVER
2. LSI MEGARAID STORAGE MANAGER DOWNLOAD SERVER 2012 R2 PRO

Just for those that are not aware, here is the setting we are changing: Write Cache Off Here are a few examples of write cache on versus write cache off in Windows Server 2012 with a few popular SSD offerings. Write speeds plummeted across every drive. Write Cache On Versus Off with a SSD on a LSI SAS 2308 and Write Through Mode in Anvil’s Storage Utilitiesīy default, Windows Server 2012 turned write cache on for new drives. Certainly not around the release of Windows Server 2012 nor Windows 8.

LSI MEGARAID STORAGE MANAGER DOWNLOAD SERVER 2012 R2 DRIVER

The strange thing here is that there has not been a lot by way of driver updates since the end of May. Supermicro Windows 8 64-bit LSI Driver v2.00.58.0

LSI MEGARAID STORAGE MANAGER DOWNLOAD SERVER 2012 R2 PRO

Test SSDs: OCZ Vertex 4 256GB, Kingston SSDNow V+200 240GB, SanDisk Extreme 240GB, Samsung 840 Pro 256GB.Memory: 8x 4GB Kingston unbuffered ECC 1333MHz DIMMs.

Test Configurationįor this piece, I am using the new SSD test configuration. Also, using Anvil’s Storage Utilities (which is a great benchmark) turning on the write through setting can help performance. What we found was some controllers respond differently to the default settings and changing write cache settings in Windows Server 2012 may help performance. One area was to change the write cache setting from the default on to the off setting.ĭrives were all 240GB or 256GB in capacity. This is a decent cross section and I did a round-up this summer of several SSD’s and their Anvil’s Storage Utilities Performance. Benchmarking on the LSI SAS 2308 controller is a bit harder as I have been spending more time tuning the system. Benchmarking on an Intel PCH is very easy, everything just works out of the box. I first added five different SSD combinations onto the onboard SAS 2308 controller. Once I got Windows Server 2012 working on the Supermicro X9DR7-LN4F, I ran into some troubling issues. This weekend I was doing some work on the new ServeTheHome storage test bed.