> I'm currently getting !41 MB/s from /dev/zero writing > to the filesystem, and ~50 MB/s from the filesystem > to /dev/null. It's an array of 4 IDE 7200RPM drives > running at ATA100, so theoretically, I should be able > to get up to 100 MB/sec per drive, correct?
Unfortunately, no. 100MB/s is the bus speed, not the drive speed. If you are getting ~50MB/s out of 7200RPM drives, you're doing good, real good. Just to give you something to compare against, older fiber channel 10000RPM drives will do ~36MB/s with UFS on them. Of course, that's not a very scientific method and it's very close to comparing apples and oranges, but it should still carry the message over. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
