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From: "Koen Smits" <kgysmits@gmail.com>
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Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: Areca vs. ZFS performance testing.
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Please let us know what Areca says about the caching.
If you ask me, these results definitely are cached.

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:02, Danny Carroll <fbsd@dannysplace.net> wrote:

> Koen Smits wrote:
> > Those numbers are pretty good, right? Who needs onboard XOR anyway :)
> >
>
> Those numbers are great, but I would love to know that writes to the
> disks are also protected by the battery backup.  If not then I'll be
> forced to use either hardware raid5/6 or perhaps some other
> configuration.  Maybe 6 stripe sets in a raidz array?
>
> At the end of the day however I really don't care about the performance,
> even the slowest of the tests I did would be fast enough to saturate a
> gigabit ethernet port, which is way fast enough for me.  But its an
> interesting set of tests...
>
> -D
>