Running A Btrfs RAID Array Across Four USB 3.0 Flash Drives

Written by Michael Larabel in Storage on 17 August 2015 at 11:40 AM EDT. Page 2 of 3. 13 Comments.
Flash Drive Btrfs RAUD File-System Test
Flash Drive Btrfs RAUD File-System Test
Flash Drive Btrfs RAUD File-System Test

The FIO results are in MB/s, higher is better. Due to the Git revision used during testing, it didn't render on the graph.

Flash Drive Btrfs RAUD File-System Test
Flash Drive Btrfs RAUD File-System Test

Compared to SSD tests of Btrfs RAID arrays, the RAID 5/6 performance is particularly very poor across the USB flash drive tests but in general RAID'ing USB flash drives weren't yielding performance gains except for RAID0 and RAID10 compared to running these disk tests on a single flash drive.


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