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2008 Mar 13
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7-disk raidz achieves 430 MB/s reads and 220 MB/s writes on a $1320 box
...at the beginning of the platter -- I don''t know why it varies so much between different units of the same model, additional seeks caused by reallocated sectors perhaps) I found out that an important factor influencing the max bandwidth of a PCI Express device such as the SiI3132 is the Max_Payload_Size setting, which can be set from 128 to 4096 bytes by writing to bits 7:5 of the Device Control Register (offset 08h) in the PCI Express Capability Structure (starting at offset 70h on the SiI3132): $ /usr/X11/bin/pcitweak -r 2:0 -h 0x78 # read the register 0x2007 Bits 7:5 of 0x2007 a...