(LONG) ATA Benchmark: 5.x Reads Slower than Writes

[Jim C. Nasby]

Have you been certain to disable write caching on the drives? If not I
bet that's what you're seeing (which also means you're begging for
database corruption).
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Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant               decibel at decibel.org 
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