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

[Drew]

> I don't know how either of us could have made our opinions any more
> clear...

Just curious dude. "perform like hell" could go either way.

> Don't use the 3ware/LSI SATA RAID controllers in RAID 5 or RAID 6 mode
> if performance and reliability are of concern. I only use hardware RAID
> because performance and reliability are my concern. I am told that the
> Areca cards are much better on RAID 5/6 but I have no first hand
> experience with them. While you may get better performance with
> write-back caching (don't enable without a BBU), the improvement is
> incremental. Stick with RAID 10.

Somebody at IBM must not have gotten the memo then as the
M5015/9260-8i is their top of the line on-board RAID controller. :-)

-- 
Drew

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