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When I use four drives, one operates very slowly
I’m experiencing unusual behavior with my system. When I attempt to write to four disks concurrently. In fact, the last disk (/dev/sdd) consistently operates at a speed ranging from 40MB/s to 5MB/s.
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Are there any performance issues with allowing a hard drive to become full if the drive is effectively read-only?
I'm fairly confident that the answer is "no issues," but I'm asking here in case there are any quirks that I'm failing to consider.
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I have a large storage array (on a Linux system) ...
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What's the fastest file system setup for transferring from NVME to HDD?
I'm trying to figure out the proper system layout for transferring data from fast storage to slow storage with minimal bottlenecks. I have a fast array of RAID 0 NVME drives used for daily tasks. At ...
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Network speed versus HDD speed in NAS RAID5 configuration
I'm considering a QNAP 653D 6-bay NAS with 8GB of memory and an array of 12TB Seagate Ironwolf NAS HDDs configured in RAID 5 (initially with three drives that I bought on sale and expanding to 6 later)...
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How does loss of single drive influence 4k random performance of RAID 1 array?
Here is one explanation of the benefits of RAID 1:
"As different disks can seek on different data, it [RAID 1] has up to 2x the random read IOPS but the same 1x (or slightly lower, due to ...
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Is RAID 1 the highest read speed type?
We have some servers that provide a web server with about 4,000 files with 1GB of each.
Always have a problem on bandwidth that server can’t produce on more than 800Mbps and it’s from the read speed ...
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Very slow bootup time after adding SSD - Windows 10
I wanted to increase the speed of my DLL PC so added a new 120 GB SSD hard disk in addition to the previously present hard disk, system boot up time became very slow.
It is litreally stuck at bios ...
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Server SSD read speed
We have a hp proliant DL580 Gen10 with
5x12Gb/s ssd
2x6Gb/s ssd
I put the 2x6Gb/s ssd in raid1 to install esxi.
How do I configure the 5x12Gb/s ssd for max read performance? i.e. the main workload ...
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Unusual slow SSD on RAID 0 performance
I'm using a ThunderBay 4 external enclosure as my main storage and backup unit. Recently I bought two 1TB Samsung EVO 860 SSD to improve performance of my data drives. I installed them using NewerTech ...
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CPU: What is more important when reading from HDD, processor speed or number of cores?
I am considering which NAS to purchase, a Synology DS418play or DS419play.
The former has a Dual Core 2.0 burst up to 2.5 GHz, and the latter has a Quad Core 1.5 burst up to 2.3 GHz.
In either case, ...
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Does RAID 0 increase the latency of the volume on HDD? [duplicate]
I will add a new HDD to my computer (identical to the old HDD).
I'm wondering if it's a good idea to do a raid 0 vs using the two drive separately.
How much it impact the latency and the performance....
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One hard drive in a group is much slower
I bought a group of Seagate Expansion portable 4TB drives to harvest and install as a low-power RAID group. I've been testing them before breaking their cases open in case one has an infant mortality ...
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HDD painfully slow only on my computer
I have Dell Vostro 3560 that has Intel Rapid that makes a hybrid RAID with an internal SSD to optimize performance. Just to check things I disabled it to test the pure HDD performance without help ...
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Raid 0 Performance Decreased
I was trying to understand the performance benefits of RAID. I created 4 virtual disks in Windows 10 (10 GB each). I then set up 2 of them as Stripped volumes and the other 2 as spanned volumes. Now I ...
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Can the transfer rate of SATA limit the performance of a RAID array?
Let's say I have 4 drives and each of them has a transfer rate (random/sequential,read/write, it doesn't matter for the purpose of this question) of 250Mb/s. I put them in RAID 0. This means that I ...
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