On Thu, March 18, 2010 04:50, erik.ableson wrote: > > It would appear that the bus bandwidth is limited to about 10MB/sec > (~80Mbps) which is well below the theoretical 400Mbps that 1394 is > supposed to be able to handle. I know that these two disks can go > significantly higher since I was seeing 30MB/sec when they were used on > Macs previously in the same daisy-chain configuration. > > I get the same symptoms on both the 2009.06 and the b129 machines.
While it wasn't on Solaris, I must say that I've been consistently disappointed by the performance of external 1394 drives on various Linux boxes. I invested in the interface cards for the boxes, and in the external drives that supported Firewire, because everything said it performed much better for disk IO, but in fact I have never found it to be the case. Sort-of-glad to hear I don't have to wonder if I should be trying it on Solaris. -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
