RE: RAID performance software?

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's Windows. Doesn't need to be hugely fast, just wanted to make sure
it's=
all working as it should be. Data security is the primary aim.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> James Fidell
> Sent: 24 August 2006 23:03
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] RAID performance software?
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> Paul Gale wrote:
> > I=92ve now finished building a 1.4TB RAID5 array for storing all
my
> HA/Music etc. I want to check it=92s performance =96 anyone know of a
pie=
ce of
> software that will check performance (or should I just use one of the
> standard drive performance tools =96 which one?).
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> Depends what OS you're using.  For Linux there's a tool called
"bonnie"
> that you could potentially use from one of the CD-based distributions
> even if you intend to run a different OS.
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> Performance of RAID5 arrays is never particularly stunning in terms of
> data transfer speeds, but if you care deeply about that then you don't
> use RAID5.
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> James
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