On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 05:01:19AM -0800, Tom Buskey wrote: > As a followup, the system I'm trying to use this on is a dual PII 400 > with 512MB. Real low budget. > > 2 500 GB drives with 2 120 GB in a RAIDZ. The idea is that I can get > 2 more 500 GB drives later to get full capacity. I tested going from > a 20GB to a 120GB and that worked well. > > I'm finding the throughput just isn't there. < 2MB/s compared to > 20MB/s on a similar Linux system. > > Anyone else going this low budget?
There are many folks (including myself) that have done similar super-low budget setups. Which SATA controller are you using? If it's the SI3112, it has a documented problem when you try to use both SATA channels simultaneously - it gets less than 2MB/s, compared to about 50MB/s on each drive individually. I'm not sure if the SI3114 has similar problems, or not. This may not be your problem, but I know the SI3112 was popular on machines in that timeframe. --Bill _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
