My raid-10 speed seems slow when test using hdparm

See http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-9.html

To check out speed and performance of your RAID systems, do NOT use hdparm. It won't do real benchmarking of the arrays.

Instead of hdparm, take a look at the tools described here: IOzone and Bonnie++.

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