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From: Scott Ullrich <sullrich@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:18:11 -0500
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Subject: Re: Help ZFS FreeBSD 8.0 RC2 Write performance issue
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. <sfourman@gmail.com> wrote:
> and this was with ZFS over NFS? My problem and the reason I started this thread
> I am getting less than 20MB/sec writes, with 6 SATAII disks attached
> to a single Arcera 1130 card

Yes

> so you are suggesting that it is possible that 2x SSD disks would get
> me the other 60MB/sec

I am unsure of your final numbers but it made a huge improvement
taking it from intolerable to more than tolerable.  I would give it a
shot.

Scott