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Nice. Thanks. That shows around the same as I am finding. Was your raid array hard or soft?

It seems Tilts 7 x X25-M's are quite a bit slower at low qd's than Comps 8 x vertex on the same controller.
No hardware raid, the raid was created on my standard SATA ports of the GB-UD5.
As I usually don't install IMSM it was created in the raid-bios and so there is no WBC.

Tilt should learn how to HDDerase asap.
I've got all my utilities including HDDerase on an old USB memory stick, made it bootable (DOS), works very well.

Anyway, I don't believe in benching 6-8 drives anymore, one gets most of the iops from 2-4 drives. The rest is mostly sequential bandwidth.