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Date:      Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:55:23 -0800
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        presence <kkanno@churchofinformationwarfare.org>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Best ATA RAID controller 
Message-ID:  <200202140155.g1E1tNF01777@mass.dis.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Feb 2002 18:47:34 CST." <Pine.BSF.4.33L2.0202131845580.99286-100000@centipede.symmetric.net> 

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> I use RAID 5 on an 8 port 3ware card with 7 active 60GB IBM disks. It's
> really slow at a max write speed of about 7MB/s for any block size. I've
> had read speeds at about 16MB/s. The box is a PIII 450 with 512MB RAM

RAID5 on the 6xxx-family cards will be very slow; it should be 
substantially better on the 7xxx's, especially the 7x5x's, which have 
hardware checksum acceleration.

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