> Yeah, we've also seen performance issues with raid5 on the 9500 series
> products. The benchmarks we run look good, but when we've put them into
> production file server environments, the performance has been disappointing.
> With 500GB disks now available for $4.95 down at the local Walgreen's, we've
> gone to raid 1 and are _very_ pleased with the performance. Although it's
> been discouraged on this list, we're using xfs and the unsupported CentOS
> kernels and haven't had any problems. We're anxiously waiting the 'new,
> improved' xfs drivers for CentOS :) :)
The 9550 has better performance over the 9500, but I don't have any
real numbers to back up the differences.
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