There are tuning parameters for how fast ZFS will allow itself to rebuild, it may not be the hardware.

http://broken.net/uncategorized/zfs-performance-tuning-for-scrubs-and-resilvers/



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> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Time (was: that whoel ZFS thing)
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> On Mon, 11 May 2015, Linda Kateley wrote:
>
> > I forget what the raid set was? 7+1?
>
> It's two 3+1.
>
> > No activity on it while it was rebuilding?
>
> Minimal activity. I mean it was still online and shared via NFS, but nothing was
> accessing it. About half-way through I got bored and did do some read-
> access, and I noticed that didn't change the pace. There was still minimal stuff
> and it kept going at about 80M/sec.
>
> Funny thing is after the rebuild was complete I decided to do a just-in-case
> scrub.
>
> No activity, and that went from 70K/sec to 30K/sec. It's at 25% and says it'll be
> another 83 hours... this is NOT a fast array.
>
> I sometimes tell myself that if I throw ECC RAM in there it'll be faster, but I
> don't think that's the bottleneck. I think these NAS drives are built for
> reliability rather than speed. Sure, I've had to RMA two of them so far, but
> hey.
>
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