good performing SCSI RAID5 ( was: asr ( 2015S ) support in 5.4 amd64? )

[Steven Hartland]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Long" <scottl at samsco.org>
> 
> The ASR 370F firmware brought performance from 'abysmal' to 'slightly 
> tolerable'.  Under ideal conditions, it has been benchmarked to get
> close to 170MB/s, but you need to be very careful about stripe alignment
> and cache settings.  Oh, and that was RAID-0, not RAID-5.

Thanks for that I'll check up what we have and upgrade if needed.

    Regards
    Steve


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