Best SCSI or SAS RAID for a NAS?

[Sean Murphy]

Mike Sweetser - Adhost wrote:
> We're looking for opinions on what the best RAID controller would be for
> maximizing throughput on a drive array serving as a NAS using NFS.  It
> needs to be either SCSI based or SAS based.
>
> Right now, we're using an LSI MegaRAID with 512MB RAM, which was the
> best at the time, but we're experiencing throughput issues and are
> looking for what might be better.
>
> Thanks!
> Mike Sweetser
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Its not just the controller you should be checking.  The drives RPM 
speed, how many drives in the array,  are you using RAID 0+1 or just 
RAID 5 for the array.  Could you give more details on these issues?

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Sean Murphy
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