On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 15:02 -0400, Rolf wrote:
> I have tested enough drives recently to know that the advertised speeds 
> are in the right ballparks... I am getting close to 100MB/s on a RAID0 
> array on linux (actually, I get more, and I just tested....):
> 
>  dd if=/dev/zero of=/fast/junk bs=1024k count=1024
> 1024+0 records in
> 1024+0 records out
> 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 10.1231 s, 106 MB/s

Interesting, dstat seems to be wrong! I just tried your method and the
drive I though was doing over 100MBps is actually only hitting about
60MBps. Is there something about dstat I don't understand?

TTYL

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