<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:52 PM, John Drescher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">>> Do you need better performance? A 14 drive linux software array of 1TB<br>
>> drives should net you at minimum 500MB/s writes with 600 to 800 MB/s<br>
>> reads.<br>
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> Guess there is something seriously wrong with mine then... I have a 14 drive<br>
> array with 500GB drives, software RAID, and I am lucky to get 120 MB/s<br>
> (measured using dd). Do you have any tips/suggestions on how to speed it up?<br>
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</div>Are all drives on the pci-e based sata controllers? What CPU?<br></blockquote></div><br><br>And what type of RAID? 5/6 are slower than 10 would be, for example. <br>