Much more important is your disk subsystem. Using an Areca RAID
controller with battery backed cache and a half dozen or more hard
drives is often the real winner for performance.
Yes, LSI and 3Ware are also good. I am particularly fond of LSI but
Areca has PCI-Express cards which means you can put them on cheaper
motherboards :)
I too have a soft spot in my heart for LSI MegaRAID cards. They've
never treated me badly.
Well the driver is rock solid on linux because it is MegaRaid. The card
for the most part hasn't changed in 10 years :)
Joshua D. Drake
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