[CentOS] Centos 5.6 3ware raid 5

Tue Feb 7 20:53:00 UTC 2012
Ken Smith <kens at kensnet.org>

Hi, I've seen comments about the poor performance of these cards with 
raid 5 configs. I have an old card with 3 x 500G IDE drives connected in 
raid 5 and I'm getting around 10mb/s write performance. :-(

I'm seeing high iowait figures at times and associated very high cpu 
load average figures, probably because, under load, everything is 
stacked up waiting for the disks to actually do something.

A non-raid sata disk in the same machine manages 70mb/s

Does anyone know what the performance is like if I used the 3ware just 
as an IDE controller? I could then switch to software raid5?

Thanks

Ken

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