Post install FWIW

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Tue Oct 20 22:05:50 UTC 2015


On 10/20/15 13:26, Quartz wrote:
>> When I dd'ed /dev/zero to (re-) initialize the individual
>> drives during install, I saw 125-ish MB/s per drive, so this is 90-ish %
>> efficient for this write.
>
> Do remember that using dd to estimate disk speeds is tricky since its 
> write pattern is somewhat non-standard. You should try a more 'real 
> world' test like rsyncing a bunch of random crap with differing sizes.
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*Agreed*, that's why I called it 'light benchmarking'. I will be alert 
to more data as time goes on, but this looked so promising I decided to 
spread the love, so to speak ....


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