Benchmarking - hdparm (follow-up)

If you recall, the last time I tested hdparm on my Celeron 566MHz system, I was getting very poor read performance on /dev/hda.

So I added in a HTP302 (HighPoint Rocket133) 2-port PCI card and moved hda over to the new card.

I now get 20MB/s buffered reads from both the primary and secondary disk in the RAID1 array and 30MB/s buffered reads from the mirror set. Which is a lot better then the 3.1MB/s for hda and 3.5MB/s for the overall RAID1 array.

That should make the system feel a lot more snappy. Now the bottleneck will probably be the CPU or the 100Mbit ethernet card.