IBM blade server abysmal disk write performances

[Matthew Jacob]

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> mpt0: <LSILogic SAS/SATA Adapter> port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 
> 0x99910000-0x99913fff,0x99900000-0x9990ffff irq 28 at device 0.0 on pci11
> mpt0: MPI Version=1.5.20.0
> mpt0: Capabilities: ( RAID-0 RAID-1E RAID-1 )
> mpt0: 0 Active Volumes (2 Max)
> mpt0: 0 Hidden Drive Members (14 Max)
Ah. Historically IBM systems (the 335, for one) have been very slow with 
the Integrated Raid software, at least on FreeBSD.