On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:44:01 +0000 Mathias BurÃn <mathias.buren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Controller device @ pci0000:00/0000:00:16.0/0000:05:00.0 [sata_mv] > SCSI storage controller: HighPoint Technologies, Inc. RocketRAID > 230x 4 Port SATA-II Controller (rev 02) > host6: [Empty] > host7: /dev/sde ATA SAMSUNG HD204UI {SN: S2HGJ1RZ800964 } > host8: /dev/sdf ATA WDC WD20EARS-00M {SN: WD-WCAZA1000331} > host9: /dev/sdg ATA SAMSUNG HD204UI {SN: S2HGJ1RZ800850 } Does this controller support PCI-E 2.0? I doubt it. Does you Atom mainboard support PCI-E 2.0? I highly doubt it. And if PCI-E 1.0/1.1 is used, these last 3 drives are limited to 250 MB/sec. in total, which in reality will be closer to 200 MB/sec. > It's all SATA 3Gbs. OK, so from what you're saying I should see > significantly better results on a better CPU? The HDDs should be able > to push 80MB/s (read or write), and that should yield at least 5*80 = > 400MB/s (-1 for parity) on easy (sequential?) reads. According to the hdparm benchmark, your CPU can not read faster than 640 MB/sec from _RAM_, and that's just plain easy linear data from a buffer. So it is perhaps not promising with regard to whether you will get 400MB/sec reading from RAID6 (with all the corresponding overheads) or not. -- With respect, Roman
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