Hi,
I'm witnessing poor performances while writing to a RAID 5 Raidframe I setup to be my home NAS a couple of months ago. Following some documentations, tutorials, and mailing-list posts, I think I had everything aligned right as the following configuration suggests: raid1.conf: START array # numRow numCol numSpare 1 3 0 START disks /dev/wd2a /dev/wd3a /dev/wd4a START layout # sectPerSU SUsPerParityUnit SUsPerReconUnit RAID_level_5 64 1 1 5 START queue fifo 100 # gpt show raid1 start size index contents 0 1 PMBR 1 1 Pri GPT header 2 32 Pri GPT table 34 94 128 7814057951 1 GPT part - NetBSD FFSv1/FFSv2 7814058079 32 Sec GPT table 7814058111 1 Sec GPT header # dkctl raid1 listwedges /dev/rraid1d: 1 wedge: dk0: 5bdb599c-744a-11e3-9160-002354666e0f, 7814057951 blocks at 128, type: ffs newfs(8) was done like this: # newfs -O2 -b64k -I dk0 The disks involved are Seagate Barracuda which are known to have as such high write transfer rate as ~100MB/s, and I merely get a 25MB/s with those: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/export/imil/tmp/test bs=1m count=1000 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes transferred in 42.619 secs (24603486 bytes/sec) On the other hand, read speed is really good: $ dd if=/export/imil/media/foobar_adventures.mp4 of=/dev/null bs=1m 1395+1 records in 1395+1 records out 1463376863 bytes transferred in 7.899 secs (185261028 bytes/sec) Any advice on this matter? Does this configuration looks good? Thanks, ---------------------------------------------------------------- Emile `iMil' Heitor * <imil@{home.imil.net,NetBSD.org,gcu.info}> _ | http://imil.net | ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) | http://www.NetBSD.org | - against HTML email X | http://gcu.info | & vCards / \