It's not easy to retry now because the 4 disks attached to the sil3114
controller are half of the raidz2 mirror... but in the previous home server
that I had, this controller had 3 * 320gb disks attached to it where I had a
raidz1 pool.
With dclarke's test it easily got 50MB/s in the first (mad
I wanted to confirm the drivers I was using for the hard drives in my PC,
and here is the method I used. Maybe you can try something similar,
and see what you get.
I used the 'prtconf' command, with the device path from the 'format' command.
(Use bash as the shell, and use the tab key to expand