Reciprocate - 2014-09-19

Gigabit ethernet. Somewhere within the forum amadvance warns about the speed penalties...and those clearly do exist vs a full SATA connection.

That said, 4ea 4TB drives keep the pipe saturated - so the calculated ETA is ~36hrs. Not bad considering.

Was only getting 55MiBs with a similar array mounted to a samba server :)

Just notes to save someone trouble.......this is about my sixth try. I know how to break it:)

Figure I'll pickup a little more speed when more disks are added - but essentially this is so close to the pipe's limit - snapraid reaches the point of diminishing returns.

Using a Thinkpad 40P to host the drives and a scrapped Xeon X3430 server for backup....Both access read only.

Bought the server only for the ECC memory - processor is way overkill (4%). amadvance was right about that too. Even the laptop can run his software to conclusion (tested). "Memory hunger" sets in early though.... had the "write everything" timer set for 5 minutes. Took a long time - but it finished.