CERC RAID5 performance lower than everyone else

John Hodrien johnh at comp.leeds.ac.uk
Fri Jul 18 07:07:13 CDT 2008


On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Tino Schwarze wrote:

>> Sounds reasonable to me.  I gave up on RAID 5 and switched to RAID 1.  When
>> the performance of that sucked I then dropped to software RAID 1.  That's got
>> it up to a stunning 25Mbyte/sec write speed.
>>
>> The card is awful.
>
> I wonder how people dare to actually sell such crap! I mean, isn't there
> some kind of engineer's ethics or something?!

They probably felt that anyone who bought a non-SCSI raid card at the time
deserved all they got for being such cheapskates.

jh

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