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Date:      Sun, 08 May 2005 07:09:11 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
Cc:        Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@withagen.nl>
Subject:   Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a
Message-ID:  <427E0F77.50006@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <002b01c553be$93a5b790$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk>
References:  <069901c54bfd$2967ba40$7f06000a@int.mediasurface.com> <427D5AA0.1080609@withagen.nl> <002b01c553be$93a5b790$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk>

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Steven Hartland wrote:
> If that where the case it would have been it wouldn't have been
> 46Mb/s it would have been 543Mb/s, just tested it for you :P

The RR1280 cards are really just software RAID cards.  All of the parity
calculations are done by the CPU.  I couldn't find much evidence that
the driver has parity routines that are optimized for the CPU, so it's
likely doing a very inefficient job at it.

Scott



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