Bob Friesenhan wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Saxon, Will wrote:
>> When I read this I thought that it kind of eliminated Sandforce
>> drives from consideration as SLOG devices, which is a pity because
>> the OCZ Vertex 2 EX or Vertex 2 Pro SAS otherwise look like good
>> candidates.

> For obvious reasons, the SLOG is designed to write sequentially.
> Otherwise it would offer much less benefit.  Maybe this random-write
> issue with Sandforce would not be a problem?

The observation was that the Sandforce controllers perform more 
poorly than others when sequentially writing highly random data, 
not with random writes of 'normal' data. 

-Will
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