freebsd-performance Digest, Vol 4, Issue 7

[Jin Guojun [DSD]]

Eric Anderson wrote:

> > Very minimum.
> > It was slow on SCSI bus , but I do not have time to diagnose,
> > which can be very time consuming.
>
> My tests have shown that a GOOD hardware RAID5 controller can really
> help you out when it's being slammed (specially over NFS) - I use Dell
> PERC/2 and PERC/3 controllers (rebranded AMI RAID boards).  They run
> like champs, and I get 40MB/s sustained xfers..

What did you mean sustained xfers ? -- in and out, or just read out.

    -Jin