SATA HDD issues

what I found it is working:

  • one sata connected drive mounted and running do not cause any problems for me (btrfs defrag + lxc containers running + media server + etc all running together )
  • 2 drives on sata ports only sharing data on network ( cpu limits network transfers about 30MB/s and therefore pcie bus is not overloaded, no other services causing drives reading or writing than samba is not running )
  • transfers between usb 3.0 drive and sata connected drives
  • rsync between 2 drives with limited speed about 15MB/s (rsync --bwlimit=15M)

what is not working for me:

  • raid sync between two drives on sata ports (drives transfers data at maximum speed about 300MB/s together and it causes kernel error and sata connected drives are out of game until router is restarted)
  • “btrfs scrub” on two drives at once (same like previous note)
  • copying data at full speed between drives on sata ports (same like previous notes)
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