On 01/20/2017 09:31 AM, Peter Peltonen wrote:
I am planning to have RAID1 setup and I am wondering if I should use
the controller's RAID functionality which has 2GB cache or should I go
with JBOD + Linux software RAID?


I'd recommend testing the specific application that will run on this system. It's not unusual for a system to preform well in simplistic benchmarks (like bonnie++), but not in real-world use. I recently conducted tests in which a MegaRAID controller handily outclassed software RAID under bonnie++, but fell short under better benchmarks provided by filebench:

https://plus.google.com/+GordonMessmer/posts/eSe6iNmk1Fs?sfc=false

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