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Re: [Xen-users] RESOLVED: bad I/O performance with HP Smart Array RAID

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] RESOLVED: bad I/O performance with HP Smart Array RAID
From: Andy Burns <xen.lists@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 10:36:49 +0000
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2009/2/25 Thomas Aeby <aeby@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> I'm not very eager to install BBWC
> since I saw quite a few posts stating that even with BBWC installed (and
> write cache enabled) they get a really poor throughput,

Just to give you a single datapoint, on a smartarray P800 BBWC
controller using a RAID1+0 array of eight 15krpm 300GB SAS disks I
fully zeroed a 1TB file in just under an hour, 2.2gbit/sec sustained
isn't so bad ;-)

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