[CentOS] Write performance with 3ware 9550

Bowie Bailey
Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:49:24 -0000

Kirk Bocek wrote:
> chrism at imntv.com wrote:
> > To what end?  I'd absolutely NEVER use it in production that way.
> > That's *plenty* fast for me.
>
> On the current system I built, the best I could get from ext3 on a
> 4-drive raid-5 array was 95MB/Sec writes. With XFS I'm getting
> 220MB/Sec+. For a media server, I want the extra speed.

For me, ext3 on a 4-drive raid5 array is 20MB/Sec.  I've GOT to be
doing something wrong.

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Bowie