Dan Stoner wrote: > >> Makes one wonder if Linux is reasonably usable with 3ware. ;-) >> >> Does anyone have any bonnie++ results for Linux software RAID 5? I know >> software RAID 5 does not really lend itself to a performant software >> implementation, but the results would be interesting to see, none the >> less. > > > I don't have any hard numbers, but one of my colleagues just doesn't use > the 3Ware hardware RAID features because of the performance issues, > building his RAID 5 (or possibly RAID 6) arrays in software. Performance > screams (=fast). If he is using 3ware raid cards below 95xx series, raid 5 performance sucks due to the lack of a large RAM buffer. 3ware 95xx cards should have good performance with raid 5 implementations.