> I am expecting the faster performance on READ than WRITE because of > parallel read from disks more than 2(2 for RAID1, 3 for RAID0) at the > same time. if I understand your description, each of your tests involves either reading or writing from a single disk (and also writing/reading a raid.) such tests will always run at the speed of the slowest disk, presumably the single one. for instance, cp /some-2-disk-raid0/file /other-single-disk/ will be limited by the write speed of other-single-disk, and not the raid. cp /other-single-disk/file /some-2-disk-raid0/ is similar, though now it's the reading from a single disk which is the bottleneck. > Any suggestion or opinion? test bandwidth with something more reasonable than time cp. even "time dd if=/disk-to-read-from of=/dev/zero bs=64k" is more sensible. regards, mark hahn. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html