Re: 3ware 7500-12, bad write speed

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 raid@ddx.a2000.nu wrote:

Ok did a benchmark between software raid en hw raid
controller 3ware 7850 (7500-8 now?) with 5 * WDC 120GB 7200RPM (2mb cache)
On xeon dual 2GHZ (controller in 64bits pci)

Guess that is pretty much the same results I get, but it also shows that 
software raid5 also isn't very fast when it comes to writing, and cpu 
usage actually does rise a lot (your tests seem to indicate that there is 
a lot of cpu activity going on?).

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se