Alan Cox wrote:
If you want really high performance use multiple drives, on multiple PCIE controllers. Just make sure your backup planning of raid 1+0 setup is done right as many drives means a lot more drive fails.
Thanks again. For what it's worth, I shall be attempting this with SATA drives in a RAID 50 configuration - 2 x 8 drives, using md RAID and an 8 lane PCIe SAS HBA.
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