Oh god I found it. So freakin' bizarre. I'm pushing now 27MB/s average, instead
of meager 1.6MB/s. That's more like it.
This is what happened:
Back in the day when I bought my first SATA drive, incidentally a WD Raptor, I
wanted Windows to boot off it, including bootloader placement on it and
> Lot of small files perhaps? What kind of protection
> have you used?
No protection, and as much small files as a full distro install has, plus some
more source code for some libs. It's just 28GB that needs to be resilvered, yet
it takes like 6 hours at this abysmal speed.
At first I thought i