Smartarray P400i and raid5?

[Johan Ström]

Hello list!

I'm about to get myself a DL360 G5 box with a SmartArray P400i 256Mb  
BBWC. I found this thread in the archive:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-proliant/2007-August/000297.html

 From the thread one person claims raid5 mode is not very good without  
BBWC, but the original poster didn't seem to know if he had BBWC or  
not, and the thread died, I'd like to know if this is the case?
Will raid5 be a bad option on 4x 136Gb 10krpm SAS drives? Main  
workload is mysql/apache.

I've already asked in stable- without a single negative response (very  
nice!), but anyone had problems with the 360G5 and FreeBSD 7/ULE? Any  
hickups or anything (if you already responded in stable- then ignore  
the question :)).

Thanks!

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Johan Ström
Stromnet
johan at stromnet.se
http://www.stromnet.se/