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Date:      Mon, 18 May 2009 20:07:10 -0700
From:      Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
To:        Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What is the highest hard drive read/write speed you were able to 	achieve by entire disk mirroring or striping?
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Glen Barber wrote:
> No, that is not reasonable (but in a perfect world, would be correct).
>
> You are limited by the bus speed and controller buffer speed
> (whichever is slower).
>   


My motherboard has PCI Express v2.0, that is 500MB/s limitation.
Also it has HD/RAID controller Intel ICH10R Southbidge that has peak 
SATA Data Rate 300MB/s.
So this brings me to 300MB/s limit.
So 3X harddrives at 85MB/s will still scale. And 4X will already show 
the limitation.

Yuri




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