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Date:      Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:19:58 -0400
From:      Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Post install FWIW
Message-ID:  <562685CE.5050309@sneakertech.com>
In-Reply-To: <56265636.4050208@hiwaay.net>
References:  <56265636.4050208@hiwaay.net>

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>When I dd'ed /dev/zero to (re-) initialize the individual
> drives during install, I saw 125-ish MB/s per drive, so this is 90-ish %
> efficient for this write.

Do remember that using dd to estimate disk speeds is tricky since its 
write pattern is somewhat non-standard. You should try a more 'real 
world' test like rsyncing a bunch of random crap with differing sizes.



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