ok i have managed to get 101mb/s with iometer with both read and write. turns out my storsave profile for the 3ware was set to protection (which disables WB cache and forces data written to disk to be verified).

its really interesting because i have a FAS270 im comparing it to and its losing in the 4-512 range but killing the fas270 in anything larger (1024-16384). may be acceptable due to the 65k difference in price! not to mention this is 15k FC drives vs 7.2k Sata

the only thing not OOB so far is that i have changed the "receive descriptors" to 2048. soon i will be able to jumbo up the MTU but i predict ill just get better performance on the top end than im already getting.

i think that there is more tweaking that can be done at the ietd.conf level.

is the open-e iscsi target file based or blockio? if its file based what filesystem is being used?

and why does open-e not like iscsi-r3 as much as they like dss! (no update in the ftp folder yet).