Since you are using a RAID5 which is not the best writer - I'd recommend to spend 2 Gb on cache this will not be an overkill, however - as soon as you fill your cache be ready for write performance degradations.
nycon1 wrote:3,8 TB RAID5 3 volumes with 1 TB The purpose is VM´s (ESX4.1) storage. 6 MB of memory