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Subject: Re: SV: Does 4.9-RELEASE work with 3Ware RAID card?
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On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Matt Douhan wrote:

> ID 0  3ware 3W-7850 disk controller
> Array Unit 0  Striped with Parity 64K (RAID 5)  1068.68 GB   OK
>
>
> This works great for us on STABLE, we have crashed disks, rebuilt arrays,
> added drives and so on and it have never failed us so far.
>
> My experience is very good with these cards


I never said they didn't work in Raid 5. Just that got much better results
both performance and stability wise. Glad to read at least performance
seems to be working well now.

Did you ever try a different Raid model to see how it compared performance
wise?