From owner-freebsd-hackers  Wed Jun 16  2:38:13 1999
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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: ZD labs test update
In-Reply-To: <19990615112327.22753.rocketmail@web105.yahoomail.com> from Tommy Hallgren at "Jun 15, 1999 12:23:27 pm"
To: thallgren@yahoo.com (Tommy Hallgren)
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 11:37:55 +0200 (CEST)
Cc: mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
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It seems Tommy Hallgren wrote:
> --- Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> wrote:
> > We'd previously encountered problems with the Infortrend controller not 
> > at all liking the other disks we'd tried to talk to; a collection of 
> > Cheetahs with IBM and Compaq firmware simply wouldn't work.  This time 
> > we had better luck with real Seagate firmware, and the array 
> > performance wasn't too shabby, giving us ~8MB/sec write performance and 
> > ~16MB/sec read performance using the dd-stone benchmark.
> 
> Isn't 16MB/s quite bad for this kind of system?

It does compare badly to my little ATA system which does the dd-stone
at ~13MB write / ~17Mb read, for a fraction of the cost :)

-Søren


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