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At 10:21 PM -0700 2003/08/02, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:

>  I am trying to come up with a way to stress this and get some
>  numbers as I would like to compare it against like a 5x36GB
>  10K RPM U320 raid. It is relatively cheap for the extra space
>  it gives.

	Rawio.  It by-passes the filesystem and tests the underlying hardware.

	See also the list at <http://www.acnc.com/benchmarks.html>.

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Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>

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