On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 09:32:03PM +0300, mihai.chelaru wrote:
> "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@MIT.EDU> wrote in message
> news:<20060330203505.GD27731@multics.mit.edu>...
> > On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 12:45:49PM -0800, Marc Tooley wrote:
> > > I have a Tyan Thunder K8W 2885 w/ 8GB RAM and an LSI MegaRAID 300-8X. 
> > > The MB is populated with two Opteron 246's.
> > 
> > I was consistently disappointed with the performance of the 300-8X.  The
> > 3ware 9550SX, OTOH, is *REALLY* nice.  Unfortunately, the driver hasn't
> > been (publicly) ported.
> > 
> 
> I have here an Intel SRCS28X with LSI chipset. Write performace is very poor
> - max. 5MB/s reported by bonnie. It's a RAID5 composed of 5* 250 GB SATA and
> a spare. This is how it gets detected:

That is, in fact, a rebranded 300-8X.  As I said, I have no love for
it.  I highly recommend getting a 3ware instead.