I have done it with zcat! The transfer rate decreases steadily from the beginning of the disk to the end. It doesn't look linear, but more like a square root.. The loss is about 50% at the end of the disk compared to the beginning. The test shows that the decrease in performance is negligible in the first 10% of the disk, where the raid arrrays are. So i have really no clue about this performance loss. Thanks for the tip! It was interesting to test this drive. Michel Bellais > > You can test the performance across your drives with the program zcav > (which should come with bonnie++ - if not, take a look at > http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/) > >-- >Mads Peter Bach >Systemadministrator, Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Aalborg Universitet >Kroghstræde 3 - 5.111, DK-9220 Aalborg Øst - (+45) 96358062 ># whois MPB1-DK@whois.dk-hostmaster.dk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
