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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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Yuri wrote:
> I am seeing 85MB/s as a speed of a single Hitachi 1TB HD.
> How high can you go by mirroring or striping 2, 3, 4 harddrives?
>
> Any experiences?
>
> Thank you,
> Yuri
>

Highly unscientific measurement here, but I seem to be getting a max of
~160 MB/s by striping two Seagate 500Gb drives.