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GlobalSan iSCSI 4.1 Support?
I'm trying to understand why Netgear is not working more closely with SNS to resolve the issues with the new 4.X initiator they've released that is 64-bit on Snow Leopard. This would seem to be the wa...
Well after some more testing I have rolled back to GlobalSAN 3.3.0.43.
I ran 4.1 for the last week or so but it has been unbearable. I had 4.2.15 firmware on my Pro, so I tried upgrading to 4.2.16 today but that didn't affect the speed.
Copying a large file (~30GB) from my internal SSD to an iSCSI share using GlobalSAN 4.1 I average around 3MB/s write speed. After uninstalling that and going back to GlobalSAN 3.3 I'm back to ~80MB/s write speed. While I was using GlobalSAN 4.1 I tried playing with the different levels of error correction and even disabled it but nothing really affected the speed.
So I'm back to 3.3. I hope 3.3 will continue to work with Lion when it comes out...
I ran 4.1 for the last week or so but it has been unbearable. I had 4.2.15 firmware on my Pro, so I tried upgrading to 4.2.16 today but that didn't affect the speed.
Copying a large file (~30GB) from my internal SSD to an iSCSI share using GlobalSAN 4.1 I average around 3MB/s write speed. After uninstalling that and going back to GlobalSAN 3.3 I'm back to ~80MB/s write speed. While I was using GlobalSAN 4.1 I tried playing with the different levels of error correction and even disabled it but nothing really affected the speed.
So I'm back to 3.3. I hope 3.3 will continue to work with Lion when it comes out...
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