On 12/22/10 11:53 PM, Chris Baker wrote: > I had to upgrade my backup drive. I went from 2 1TB drives in a RAID 0 > array to 2 2TB drives in a RAID 0 array. With the old drives and > enclosure, my performance was about 4-5 MB per second. With the new > drives, my performance is about 1.5 MB per second. This is terrible for a > backup of any significance. > > Does anyone have any suggestions on why my bandwidth has gotten slower? > Everything else is same as before.
Do the 2TB drives use 4K sectors? Those need a fairly recent kernel and special partition alignment to avoid having to read and rewrite partially filled sectors. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/