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Unread 12-20-2006, 05:40 AM   #4
Phoenix32
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Default Re: 4100 write speeds

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Originally Posted by Morpheus256

so drives clearly are not the bottleneck then, i can only think that read and write speeds are being limited by the processor speed then.
No, the drives are not the bottleneck. The bottleneck(s) is/are the RAID 5 operation (writes, building, and rebuilding) and the Networking speed. Both of which, like you, I think is a function of the speed of the processor (233Mhz CPU).
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