throughput testing (was "Re: how to know a hard drive will mix well")

[David Thorburn-Gundlach <davidtg-robot@justpickone.org>]

Roger, et al --

...and then Roger Heflin said...
% On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 8:22 PM David Thorburn-Gundlach <
% davidtg-robot@justpickone.org> wrote:
% >
% > % not notice it, unless you are running your array right at the limit.
% >
% > Hmmph.  I'm not entirely sure I'm not anyway, but it is just a little PC
% > mobo running primary and daughtercard SATA ports.  A Real Server (tm) is
% > far, far beyond the current horizon :-)
% 
% It does not take much of a motherboard/cpu to service a bunch of spinning
% disks.
% 
...
% About the only major thing that makes any difference is making sure that
% whatever card is running the sata ports does not have a bottleneck.
[snip]

Thanks!  It'll be a bit before I can play, but I'll do some reading and
work some tests.  Stay tuned :-)


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