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Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 17:56:17 +0200 (CEST)
From: Stephan van Hienen <raid@a2000.nu>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
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Subject: Re: tuning disk on 3ware /performance problem
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On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Chuck Ebbert wrote:

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> > Is there anything i can do to tune the drives connected to he 3ware
> > controller ? (37MB/sec vs 43MB/sec) (and why is the seq. output block
> > 65MB/sec on the 3ware vs 41MB/sec on 'ide controllers')
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> Try doing a real test with a 1 GB file on an empty filesystem:

sure, but that is what bonnie is also doing...