On Friday 26 January 2007 22:17, you wrote: > I've got a new box with the following hardware: > > 2x Intel Xeon 3Ghz > 4 GB RAM > 2x 72GB U320 10K drives > > I've configured the RAID for RAID-0 (i have reasons for this). > During installation, I create a 20GB / and 106?GB/data partition. > > It took about 20 minutes to run newfs on the drives. > > Why? > > I'll post a dmesg once the install is done.
Check that you have a BBWC in your box, for some idiotic reason HP ship their machines without BBWC as standard and without that you don't get any write cache, only read cache. That'll inevitably affect performance to some extent. Regards Johan M:son
