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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. Context 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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Ramdisk speeds on older server bottlenecked when rsyncing files vs dd

Why am I seeing poor copy performance in memory? Background and details: While testing a RAID 10 on an older server, I wanted to see whether or not other parts of my system were bottlenecking my ...
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RAID vs DFS: What's the difference?

I know the question sounds quite stupid, as to why RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) is compared with DFS (Distributed File System), I may get downvoted. First of all, I'm aware that RAID is ...
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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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Windows 10 Pro - Very Slow Bootup // Here's My :: Windows Performance ToolKit (ETL) File

PROBLEM I installed a FRESH copy of Windows 10 Pro onto my formatted SSD RAID0 drive. This is not an Upgrade from an older OS. Each time on startup (not from SLEEP but actual full startup / restart)...
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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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Will setting up RAID 1 on secondary HDD(s) where games are installed affect performance?

I'm recently setting up a new computer and was trying to decide if I should set up RAID 1 on my computer. My setup has a small (240gb) SSD for Windows and maybe one or two games I play most often, ...
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Why Raid 1 don't improve read performance like Raid 0?

It should be able to read the data across the 2 disks like with Raid 0 right? but when I look at benchmark it looks like only one drive is used to read the data. https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index....
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maxquant software on my HPDC does not seem to utilize the speed of my m.2 raid drives

I am using a software called MaxQuant v. 1.6.6 to analyze proteiomic data. The computer in question has the following specs: gigabyte x299 motherboard i9-7980 chip (18 core, 36 logical, 2.6 GHz, runs ...
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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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Is it worth switching from RAID to AHCI on on windows 10 pc

Currently I have RAID configured on my PC in BIOS (not at software level). I wanted to use dual boot with ubuntu but this is not possible with RAID cnfiguration. Will my pc suffer in performance for ...
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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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