[CentOS] CentOS 6.0 and 3ware 9650SE series RAID Performance

Sat Sep 3 13:31:14 UTC 2011
Joseph L. Casale <jcasale at activenetwerx.com>

>Is that the "fast as hell" or "slow as hell" kind?

Slow.

>I ask because I have a couple of IBM M5015 (rebranded LSI 9260-8i) controllers that
>I run in RAID-10 and as I'm somewhat on a budget for disks (coming home with $1200
>worth of 15k SAS drives will get me shot) I'd rather run a RAID-5/6 array if the performance
>degradation is minimal. And yes, mine do have the BBU. ;-)
>
>Not that the performance of an 8x80GB SATA-300 array is much to write home about in the
>first place, but for my purposes it works fine.

For home, I doubt you would have an issue.