Quoting Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>:
> The 3ware controller should easily beat the 3MB/s mark though.
> What disks are attached, what speed and size, how many, what sort of
> raid config. Does it have a battery cache.
Unfortunately, 3Ware cards don't have a battery cache. I find this a stupid
design decision because 3Ware cards use SRAM, instead of DRAM, which means you
only need a fraction of the juice to maintain the data.
Unless, of course, they _are_ using capacitors to provide the small amount of
power to maintain the data in a SRAM between reboots and short power outtages.
SRAM (combinational boolean) requires only a very small amount of power compared
to DRAM (leaky cell) .
Someone should ping 3Ware on this design question.
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