Re: Test: HighPoint RocketRaid 3120 PCIex1 2xSATA controller under FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE

2008-09-19 Thread Dieter
If you get about the same scores with dd, try using a higher read-ahead (vfs.read_max value, set it to 32 for example). Also sometimes it's required to use a higher blocksize to get full potential, try: newfs -U -b 32768 /dev/raid device Warning: using 64KiB blocksize you risk hanging the

Re: Test: HighPoint RocketRaid 3120 PCIex1 2xSATA controller under FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE

2008-09-19 Thread fluffles.net
Dieter wrote: If you get about the same scores with dd, try using a higher read-ahead (vfs.read_max value, set it to 32 for example). Also sometimes it's required to use a higher blocksize to get full potential, try: newfs -U -b 32768 /dev/raid device Warning: using 64KiB blocksize you risk

Re: Test: HighPoint RocketRaid 3120 PCIex1 2xSATA controller under FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE

2008-09-18 Thread fluffles.net
Lukas Razik wrote: Hello Jeremy! We wrote about Areca's and HighPoint's HW-RAID controllers some weeks ago: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2008-August/005339.html Now I've tested the HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 controller with two Samsung 320GB SATA (HD322HJ) harddisks

Test: HighPoint RocketRaid 3120 PCIex1 2xSATA controller under FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE

2008-09-05 Thread Lukas Razik
Hello Jeremy! We wrote about Areca's and HighPoint's HW-RAID controllers some weeks ago: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2008-August/005339.html Now I've tested the HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 controller with two Samsung 320GB SATA (HD322HJ) harddisks under FreeBSD