On Nov 10 16:21:04, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 21:31 +0100, Michael wrote: > > Hi, > > > > when using softraid crypto with OpenBSD 4.6-current I never get more > > than ~10-11 MB/s disk writing speed even though the disk (WD Raptor 73 > > GB) itself, without crypto, can do way more. > > Uhmmmm...that sounds wear to me. I just copy 70 Gb from a USB SATA HD to > the local partitions under a softraid crypto device and I get 14-16 Mb/s > all the time. Of course I don't expect more from a USB > device
So why don't you write to the softraid device from /dev/zero, isolating yourself from assumptions about USB or whatever?

