"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
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> Jeremy "UncleHoot" Praay wrote:
>> 1 x Western Digital Caviar Black WD7501AALS 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 
>> 3.5" Hard Drive -Bare Drive
>
> Does anyone ever get even close to 3Gb/s on their hard drive? I have SATA 
> drives and I get about 80MB (340Mb/s). I have a hard time believing that 
> Linux has 5x overhead writing to a hard drive.  Is there some SATA card I 
> don't know of that's significantly faster than the bus I have or 
> something?
>

I've always figured that if something was already in the drive cache, it 
would probably transfer at (close to) 3Gb/s, but I don't think the actual 
drive itself could read data anywhere near that fast.

Somewhere I saw a RAID array of (I think) 24 SDD's.  While I don't recall 
what the transfer rate was, it was insanely fast.  Maybe someone here posted 
it.  Don't recall.

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