From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pol Hallen Subject: standard performance (write speed 20Mb/s) Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:40:58 +0200 Message-ID: <201107162140.58883.raid1@fuckaround.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi folks :-) after assembled a new hw (xeon, ich10 controller with 5 disks of 2Tb wd - radi5) I have slow write performance: 20Mb/s :-((( dd if=/dev/zero of=/share/raid/1Gb bs=1024M count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 48.7203 s, 22.0 MB/s I repeated same test also creating a 10Gb file.. same results.. write speed is better: dd if=/share/raid/1Gb of=/dev/null 2097152+0 records in 2097152+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.82054 s, 590 MB/s 20Mb/s is a disk/controller problem or controller can't do better? hw is new, I already check all disks.. thanks! Pol