raid1: root@jyka:/workha# time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=ddfile bs=8k count=200000 && sync" 200000+0 records in 200000+0 records out 1638400000 bytes (1,6 GB) copied, 11,3008 s, 145 MB/s real 0m15.622s user 0m0.100s sys 0m2.730s raid0: root@jyka:/workla# time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=ddfile bs=8k count=200000 && sync" 200000+0 records in 200000+0 records out 1638400000 bytes (1,6 GB) copied, 7,74374 s, 212 MB/s real 0m9.696s user 0m0.030s sys 0m2.490s