[Gllug] Drive array speed

[Henrik Morsing]

On Mon, 24 May 2004, A J Chapman wrote:

> We've got a few boxes at work each with a Compaq Smart Array 5i
> controller and 3 10000rpm scsi drives in a raid 5 array. Copying large
> files happens at around 2.2MB/s (thats bytes, not bits) locally, twice
> that over the network between similar machines. Thats on windows, but I
> figure it shouldn't make much difference to my question: does this seem
> slow? Does anyone know what sort of performance I should expect from
> this setup?

I would have expected closer to 100MB/s than that but I've never used
RAID5.

Cheers
Henrik Morsing
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