Dell Perc6i Raid Performance

[Todd Lyons]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Giulio Orsero<giulioo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Philipp Schmid <lists at schmidp.com> wrote:
>>
>> I wonder about our 2950 perc6i raid performance, which seems to be
>> very bad as I only get 38Mb/s during write tests.
>> on another machine 2950 with perc6i in raid 50, I get about 105MB/s.
>
> http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2009-January/038339.html
> If you can, I'd try moving the RAID10 disks from the 1st machine to the 2nd
> one, import foreign config and see what happens with the write speed.

Very late followup, but the following firmware update release by Dell
seems to directly address the issue as described by the original
poster:

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R208252&SystemID=PWE_R905&servicetag=&os=WNET&osl=en&deviceid=15304&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=2&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=3&libid=44&fileid=294902

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Regards...      Todd