Hi Craig,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the suggestion. I would if I could. I'd also probably try another file system. Though the good news is, enabling the write cache on that array has improved things significantly. Which, in my case, was:</div>
<div><br></div><div>tw_cli /c2/u0 set cache=on</div><div><br></div><div>Now, if only I had the battery backup unit for the card.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, everyone for their suggestions. For now I am happy with the situation, but I'd be interested to hear the experiences of others.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Austin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Craig White <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:craig.white@ttiltd.com">craig.white@ttiltd.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On Sep 1, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Austin Godber wrote:<br>
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> Hello,<br>
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> Does anyone have experience using a 3ware 9650SE series raid controller on CentOS 6.0?<br>
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use RAID 10<br>
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Unless something has changed, RAID 5 is notoriously slow on the 3Ware controllers. Whatever you do will only incrementally speed things up. If performance is desired, RAID 5 is not the way to go.<br>
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