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Odd. It's the same people who make Crystal DiskMark, which is a very commonly used benchmarking tool. Why did it flag it?
I suppose you could use IOMeter instead.
Remember the bottleneck will be on the pi connecting to the hard drive. Ssd will be the way to go.
Will be your friend here. USB 3 will also help. But I'm not sure of the if there is a way for the SSD directly connect with the raspberry pi other than USB.
IOMeter is way better: http://www.iometer.org/
If you have SQL installed on the box I have some stored procedures I wrote that will do some awesome disk benchmarking for database performance, but that's more specifically database oriented.
After that, try doing some bench-marking with the drive. I like IOmeter; its super old, but its rather capable and very lightweight (no spyware). Also, did you plug the HDD into a different SATA port? Use a new SATA cable? Different power cable? It's rare, but I've seen ports/cables stop working after digging around inside the case.
I'm sure there's some good programs I could use, I just don't know which ones. I know my co-worker (who does sysops/storage) uses iometer (http://www.iometer.org/) but I've never looked at it. I'm not too worried about speed honestly, but it is nice to have zippy storage for sure!
What MPIO policy setting are you using?
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd851699.aspx
Are you using Jumbo/Large frames, and is it configured on both the switch and both NICs?
Test with Iometer...
> IOMeter may be worth a shot and provides some good analysis.
Thanks, I'll give it a go. It looks a bit outdated, though (2.4 Linux kernel and Windows XP x86 being the latest mentioned platforms).