--- On Wed, 7/1/09, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Just to elaborate on the horror that is a Dell perc5e. We
> have one in
> a 1950 with battery backed cache (256 Meg I think). It has
> an 8 disk
> 500Gig SATA drive RAID-10 array and 4 1.6GHz cpus and 10
> Gigs ram.
Our perc5i controllers performed better in raid 5 that 10. Sounds like the comment you made when I was wasting my time with that perc3 fits all dell cards perfectly; "brain damaged"