From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 23 16:37:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CBA616A4DE for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 16:37:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhorne@dfwlp.org) Received: from zeus.int.dfwlp.com (zeus.dfwlp.com [208.11.134.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA9BF43D46 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 16:37:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhorne@dfwlp.org) Received: from athena.int.dfwlp.com (athena.int.dfwlp.com [192.168.125.83]) (authenticated bits=0) by zeus.int.dfwlp.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6NGbQ1S056572 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:37:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jhorne@dfwlp.org) From: Jonathan Horne To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:37:24 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <44C26B7A.30200@firebadger.net> <200607231053.58927.jhorne@dfwlp.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607231137.24188.jhorne@dfwlp.org> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on zeus.int.dfwlp.com Subject: Re: Slow Write Performance on 3ware controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 16:37:39 -0000 On Sunday 23 July 2006 11:27, Nikolas Britton wrote: > IBM Deathstars, not so fond memories of those drives. indeed. i was lucky to have bought mine several months before their quality dept took a nose dive. 2 of those drives are still in service. after almost 6 years, that might be considered impresseive considering the model-family these came from. and wow.. those are pretty impressive performance numbers! what connection/speed technology is your array, and how old is it that its about to be retired? cheers, jonathan