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I was wondering what he best way of finding out what the best way of getting the transfer speed of my hard drives. i have a DL385 g2 2xduel core opteron 8gb ram 8x 72gb 15k SAS hard drives rinning on a Smart Array P400 Controller with 512MB battery-backed write cache. The hard drive config is below Channel 1
C = 2xHDD raid 1+0 system
D = 2xHDD raid 1+0 Log Files Channel 2
E = 4xHDD raid 1+0 Database The OS is windows server 2003 enterprise R2 x386 Any help would be great.
Don’t know whether you can get using SYSMON (PERFMON), but I have used few shareware tools in thsi case refer tohttp://shareme.com/showtop/hard-drive-data-transfer-rate.html. Satya SKJ
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