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Subject: Re: ZFS resize disk vdev
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Ivan Voras wrote:

> You mean it was a lot faster *per disk*, right? (otherwise, it's
> completely expected that a large RAID array will be faster than its
> components).

Yeah - Software RAIDZ2 was faster than both ZFS and UFS on hardware 
RAID6 at sequential writing.