On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 06:34:00PM +0200, Jens Bäckman wrote: > Either the RAID 1 read speed must be wrong, or something is odd in the > Linux implementation. There's six drives that can be used for reading > at the same time, as they contain the very same data. 63MB/s > sequential looks like what you would get from a single drive. The RAID 1 read speed metrics do not depict multithreaded processes reading from the array simutaneouly. I would suspect that the read performance metrics would look better if 2 bonnie simulations were ran together (for RAID 1 that is). Bryan -- 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