I can verify that at least the DPT SmartRaid IV board is a dog. I have one
with 3 wide channels connecting 4 18GB Seagate Cheetah (10k RPM) drives in
RAID 5. It also has 32MB cache. This is in a dual PII 400 system with 256MB
RAM.
Under Linux (Radhat 6.0) IOzone and Bonnie shows about 2.5MB/sec w
I have a DPT SMartRaid IV (32MB cache) with 3 wide channels controlling 4
Seagate 18GB drives in a RAID 5 configuration. Under Linux (Redhat 6.0) I
only see about 8MB/sec reads and 2.5MB/sec writes. Under NT I see about 8MB
for reads and writes.
Talk about lousy performance!
This is a dual PII 4
