Some Interesting Performance Numbers on a new Freenas Server

OK, so after a bunch of reading and some suggestions from a couple of folks I decided to put my new freenas box through a series of tests using dd. I wanted to answer some questions about performance on the hard drives with various RAID configurations (both optimal and non-optimal) as well as how well the onboard Intel based sata ports were working on my new motherboard.

Here is my server configuration:

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Some Interesting Performance Numbers on a new Freenas Server