8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

Pete French petefrench at ticketswitch.com
Mon Jan 25 11:29:25 UTC 2010


> I like to use pci-x with aoc-sat2-mv8 cards or pci-e cards....that way you
> get a lot more bandwidth..

I would goalong with that - I have precisely the same controller, with
a pair of eSATA drives, running ZFS mirrored. But I get a nice 100
meg/second out of them if I try. My controller is, however on PCI-X, not
PCI. It's a shame PCI-X appears to have gone the way of the dinosaur :-(

-pete.


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