Hi Craig, 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: tw_cli /c2/u0 set cache=on Now, if only I had the battery backup unit for the card. Thanks, everyone for their suggestions. For now I am happy with the situation, but I'd be interested to hear the experiences of others. Austin On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Craig White <craig.white at ttiltd.com> wrote: > > On Sep 1, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Austin Godber wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Does anyone have experience using a 3ware 9650SE series raid controller > on CentOS 6.0? > ---- > use RAID 10 > > 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. > > Craig > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110901/d60025c5/attachment-0005.html>