Comment Get rid of the raid controller, it's to slow (Score 1) 168
Why keep the RAID controller at all, it's likely the slowest CPU you have in your system anyway. SSDs and smart SW based RAID aware filesystems allows build a new type of storage HW, with no need of a dedicated RADID controller. You can already today with OpenSolaris and combination of SATA drives and a few SSDs build storage solution with very good performance. And if you need the pure SSDs IOPs and low access time, just replace your spinning drives with SSDs for even better performance. Your host CPU/CPUs will have a lot better chance of keeping up with your SSD based RAID.