Christopher J. Umina

Got a new storage server, it’s a PE2900 from Dell. Installed FreeBSD 7.2 on it, rebuilt the kernel with all the updates and included:
options iscsi_initiator
connected to the iSCSI target across the LAN, then I used:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/testiscsi/file.out bs=65536
to test the speeds after mounting it. I observed horrific speeds (in the range of 300-500KB/s).
To [...]

I hate it. I didn’t buy it, someone else did and I got stuck “using” it, then selling it.
It came preconfigured with a bunch of 300GB SAS 15K RPM drives in it for use with iSCSI. To me that makes no sense. What’s the point of the HUGELY fast drives in something [...]