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Stop using RAID 0, even if it's just for the speed

Capable of putting extra HDDs and SSDs to good use, Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Drives (or RAID) is a neat feature when you’re as much of a data ...
Ars Technica

Horrible NFS write performance to RAID-6 array

Does your RAID controller have battery backup? If it doesn't, it'll typically disable all write caching, which really impairs performance. One hypothesis: with 16KB chunks, when you're local, the OS ...