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Justin Piszcz wrote:
> I would try with write-caching enabled.
> Also, the RAID5/RAID10 you mention seems like each volume is on part of
> the platter, a strange setup you got there :)

Shouldn't NCQ only help write performance if write caching is 
_disabled_?  Since write cache essentially is just non tagged command 
queuing?