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Adam Vande More wrote:

> I think it's fairly well known disk io isn't FreeBSD's strong suit, but it's
> not quite as bad as it looks.  There is some low-hanging fruit here.  If you
> where to actually tune ZFS as recommended you'd see stronger results and
> hopefully ahci will be enabled by default soon as it is a nice performance
> increase in concurre

Yes, ZFS+AHCI should give significantly better results on any such test. 
Though I doubt it would be enough to match Linux results.