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)?

Arno Wagner

2007-04-02, 7:14 pm

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage markm75 <markm75c@msn.com> wrote:
> On Apr 2, 10:32 am, Arno Wagner <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
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> just tried a 10gb file across the ethernet.. 4m 15seconds for
> 9.31GB .. this seems normal to me.

That is about 36MB/s, far lower than the stated 60MB/s benchmark.
If the slowdown on a linear, streamed write is that big, maybe the
slopw backup you experience is just due to the write strategy of
the backup software. Seems to me the fileserver OS could be
not too suitable for its task....

Arno