I'm getting 415-430 MB/s with a Raid 10 SATA-III with 6 disks with mdadm. RHEL 6.5, on a AMD FX-6 core. It is a dedicated ISCSI server that serves 6 kvm hypervisors their shared VM storage. On 02/27/2014 12:51 PM, John Frisk wrote: > Try the LSI hardware RAID cards. Yes they are expensive but that is > hardware RAID. I personally use the 9266-8i series cards for my servers. > With 6 disk SATA-III RAID 10 ( 1+0 ) I can get about 350 MB/s > throughput. Zoom. :) > > On Feb 27, 2014 12:46 PM, "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" > <chrome at real-time.com <mailto:chrome at real-time.com>> wrote: > > I find myself clueless about the state of hardware again. > > It used to be that I recommended 3ware RAID controllers because: > > 1. they had good Linux drivers built into the kernel > 2. they were reliable > 3. they had a really good management tool suite under Linux > > However, it looks like 3ware has abandoned the low-end RAID market > and the > cheapest controller of theirs which I find on Newegg is ~$440. Gone > are the > days of $120 2-port controllers for desktop use. > > Does anyone have a recommendation for a hardware RAID controller to > mirror > drives for a desktop Linux box? > > I really don't want to go back to the days of software RAID. > > -- > Carl Soderstrom > Systems Administrator > Real-Time Enterprises > www.real-time.com <http://www.real-time.com> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >