IBM xSeries 346 Slow Raid Performance. We recently bought a few used IBM xSeries 346 server each with 2 hard drives. We also bought enough extra hard drives to load all the servers to 6 hard drives. 1 of the servers is having a performance issue in a Raid 5...

your raid array to another board with ICH10R. Also, did you know about Intel's Matrix Raid? This simple feature alone should keep you from moving to hardware raid because you can create a Raid 0 array for the OS and a Raid 5 for file server all on the same...

HDTune. These simple benchmarks perform serial operation on the volume, they do only one thing at a time. They read block 1, wait for the data, read block 2, wait for the data, read block 3, and so on. This is going to be slow on ANY RAID. Filesystems...

it. My friend suggested RAID 1 in case of drive failure. (That's the real purpose for my RAID 5 in the first place, I can't afford to be down). Do I give up performance with RAID 1? Should I just bite the bullet and buy 4 drives using RAID 0+1 or 1+0 (which...

more than 1 thing at a time, Raid 5 will be horrendously slow. The Raid 5 array with my 4 Raptors was EXTREMELY slow when the OS(Raid 10) was doing something or I was watching a movie from the Raid 5 array. Also, Vista constantly reads and writes which slows...

RAID 0 and 4hdd's - Slow performance. Hello So just to make it clear this was my first time when I made Raid... So I'm not sure if thats normal or not... anyway. I got 4x WD Re 2 (if I'm not wrong) In raid 0 using LSI Software (motherboard one) 64 kb...

everything will be about 3 times slower than using a single drive. Raid 5 requires a dedicated Hardware Raid controller to work properly and the motherboard Raid is beyond slow for Raid 5. I know Raid 5 sounds nice and cool due to having redundancy and only...

But not a single person mentioned your RAID-1 is slowing you down too. RAID 1 = mirroring, will be slower because both disks are writing the same information. The fastest RAID configuration would be RAID-0 - disk striping, where data would be written faster...

without issue. I recommend a RAID controller with an onboard processor; 3Ware, Areca, or HighPoint. Do not use software RAID controllers if you want a real RAID solution and do not use the software RAID component of FreeNAS. Seriously, invest in a dedicated...

motherboard-based RAID solutions. I still consider them "hardware raid" as opposed to RAID performed at the OS level, but I think they're less fully featured than a dedicated RAID controller card. Or maybe I'm wrong - when you use these motherboard RAID...