Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

[Willem Jan Withagen]

Steven Hartland wrote:
> I've just finished putting together a new server box spec:
> Dual AMD 244, 2GB ram, 5 * Seagate SATA 400GB on a
> Highpoint 1820a RAID 5 array.

> 5.4-STABLE Highpoint 1820a RAID 5 ( 5 disk )
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> 655360000 bytes transferred in 13.348032 secs (49097875 bytes/sec)

You're only transfering 640M in 2GB of RAM, big chance that you're testing 
memory/buffercode-speed in stead of testing diskspeed.

--WjW