[Nathan Adams]

The most common setup for XServe RAIDs is RAID 50 (Both sides of XRAID get RAIDed in RAAID 5, then striped together in RAID 0). In this setup, you should be getting around 200MB/sec read times. Mine stayed around 206MB/Sec until I hit 60% full and then it drops off significantly. Now using a 4Gb Infortrend drive that sustains about 550MB/sec read times and doesn’t roll off as badly when it fills up.