On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:36, Vivek Khera wrote:
> On Apr 8, 2005, at 4:31 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>
> > Note that there are several different RAID controllers you can get with
> > a DELL. I had good luck with the PERC 4C (AMI MegaRAID based) at my
> >
>
> I've had bad luck regarding speed with *all* of them, AMI MegaRAID and
> Adaptec based ones, under high load. Under moderate to low load
> they're acceptable.
Were you using battery backed cache with write-back enabled on the 4C?
The 3C is also megaraid based, but it a pretty old design and not very
fast.