RAID Setup

RAID Controller: 3ware 9650SE
RAID Level: RAID0 64K
Disks: 4 x Western Digital RE3 500 GB
Write Cache Setting: Enabled
Read Cache Setting: Intelligent
Drive Queuing Mode: Enabled
StorSave Profile: Balanced

RAID Performance

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=1M count=16000
16777216000 bytes (17 GB) copied, 35.7572 s, 469 MB/s
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=16000
16777216000 bytes (17 GB) copied, 35.5052 s, 473 MB/s

parted /dev/sda mklabel msdos
parted /dev/sda mkpart p 2048s 128g
mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 -E stride=16 -E stripe-width=64 /dev/sda1
mount -o noatime /dev/sda1 /mnt
bonnie++ -d /mnt -u root -n 0
Version  1.96       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
Concurrency   1     -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
finnix           7G   540  99 280611 49 124322 19  1775  95 349105  27 833.0  12