Recent content by quacktastic

just to clarify, you think having a 128k stripe size will improve large streams as opposed to smaller stripe sizes, correct? thanks for your help!

Flashed the BIOS to one which specified improved IMSM support and, voila, ~50MB/s real world transfer speeds (writing to the raid 5 volume) over my gigabit network with write cache enabled. I'm such a noob, thanks for responding. Also, was I correct in assuming that since I'm dealing with...

so <2MB/s writes are actually normal for ich9r raid 5? sheesh. I was expecting to get at least 20MB/s or so for write speeds... I find it hard to believe that the fact that I'm using WD Green hard drives is what is crippling me to sub 2MB/s writes (sometimes in the 500K/s range), although I...

All right, so I know what you're thinking. "That's what you should expect with ICH9r raid 5." To some extent, I'm well aware that you're correct. However, this volume is only going to be for a home server and completely for storage/file/media service (streaming mp3s and movies usually 1 at a...