Data Storage - Re: Raid0 or Raid5 for network to disk backup (Gigabit)?

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Re: Raid0 or Raid5 for network to disk backup (Gigabit)?

markm75

2007-04-01, 1:13 pm

> Hmm. Did you do the Sandra test over the network? If not, maybe you
> have a 100Mb/sec link somewhere in there? Youer observed 10.29MB/s
> would perfectly fit such a link-speed, as it is very close to 100Mb/s
> raw speed (8 * 10.29 = 82.3Mb/s, add a bit for ethernet overhead...).
> Might be a bad cable, router port or network card. I have had this
> type of problem several times with Gigabit Ethernet.
>
> Arno

Yep.. it was done over the network and yielded 60 MB/s

btw.. that uncompressed backup took about 11 hours to complete (again,
same size on same drive was about 4 hours), with normal compression
about 9 over network.. I'm trying max compression now...