On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 09:49:43PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: > Also, check to see if your RAID card has a battery for its cache, if it > doesn't, a lot of RAID controllers drop to non-cached writes, and often > seem to slow down way beyond what you'd expect just to make you buy the > dang battery :). I believe most of the current crop of Dell RAID > controllers have an option buried in the RAID setup screens to cache > writes even without a battery. Don't blame me (or Dell, or anyone else) > if you trip over the power cord and blow away your array.
I second this too. Check if you have that write cache enabled. cheers, --rodolfo
