On Jul 8, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Ryan Wexler wrote:

> One thing I don't understand is why BBU will result in a huge performance 
> gain.  I thought BBU was all about power failures?

When you have a working BBU, the raid card can safely do write caching. Without 
it, many raid cards are good about turning off write caching on the disks and 
refusing to do it themselves. (Safety over performance.)
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