I figured caching would affect the system which is why i used 16GB files for this test. The server only has 2GB of system memory and the 3ware card has 256MB or 512MB (not sure at this moment 9650SE).

I'm just trying to get some baseline performance so I know what to expect if we ever chose to actually deploy and Open-E system using fibre channel targets. Note his was done with version 5.X, has any additional work been done that may improve performance in 6.X?