Re: [Pan-users] Speed of pan

[Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom]

> I put in a Promise ATA100 controller (Highpoint would have worked
> just as well I'm sure) and moved the disk to the new controller. hdparm now
> reports around 40 MB/s. Not exactly the 100 MB/s ATA100 is supposedly capable
> of, but a lot better than 4 MB/s. 

it's about as good as any individual spinning disk is capable of these days. 

I've heard of someone doing disk I/O benchmarks for the linux kernel, and
getting 200MB/s off an array of 8 Fibre Channel disks (theoretical max of
266MB/s with the 64-bit PCI controller); so 40MB/s/disk is pretty darn good.
:)

Carl Soderstrom.
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Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
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