2012-02-20, 21:33
patseguin Wrote:Just an update for anyone who was following my progress. I set up a RAID5 and it was incredibly slow. We are talking 9 hours to copy 1tb of data. So I went with RAID0 for now with 8tb of space and the data copy is about 3 hours. I figure maybe Ill get a battery back up and a NAS.
Have you let the array build before using it?
This can take a day or two. After this performance is way better.
I really doubt a raid5 array is 3 times slower then a raid0...
My 8x 1.5TB SATA Software RAID5:
Timing buffered disk reads: 2260 MB in 3.00 seconds = 752.59 MB/sec