Quote Originally Posted by alfaunits View Post
Regardless of how random the file is (compression-wise) or your internal file I/O, it seems the overall I/O is mostly sequential.
In what regard?
Not sure that I follow.

Quote Originally Posted by alfaunits View Post
Though I am not sure I understand any more what you guys are trying to
achieve, but with such small random I/O, it is hardly real-world.
There isn't much random IO in real life but there is some and thats why we are adding a small portion of random I/O. (on top of small file I/O)


Quote Originally Posted by MadHacker View Post
actualy to save on CPU usage so that there is no lag, all random data should be pregenerated.
I have 3 alternating buffers so It's generally not an issue.
1.5GB/s was what I measured using a small array on the Areca 1880.