I think this card is pretty solid (at least decent reputation around here), but RAID 10 f2 on mdadm is known to have RAID 0 read speeds, where classic RAID 10 (just 1+0 basically) is not... I was just lamenting this fact, and asking if there were any magic pills, or if the differences would be...
I've been using linux mdadm RAID 10 f2 for the last couple of years in our SAN, providing storage for a pretty substantial VM host cluster. Recently, because of some strange issues between lvm and mdadm, I've been forced to move to hardware raid (I chose an iop348-based solution)....
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