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Ah, I'm probably good then, this was sustained write during preclear. For giggles, here's some other metrics: root@isak:/boot# hdparm -Tt /dev/sdf /dev/sdf: Timing cached reads: 2566 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1283.38 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 788 MB in 3.00 seconds = 262.24 MB/sec root@isak:/boot# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdf bs=8k count=10k 10240+0 records in 10240+0 records out 83886080 bytes (84 MB) copied, 0.460711 s, 182 MB/s

The read speed stayed the same of course, and the write started out quite a bit faster but it seems to be settling in the 60-70MBps range, steadily decreasing from about twice that at the beginning of the write. I'll try hdparm after this is finished.

The page linked is down so I had to find a version of the patched firmware elsewhere. I grabbed it from https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-HP-Proliant-Microserver-AMI-BIOS-MOD?pid=75965#pid75965 -- it seems to be operational, but I'm getting 60MBps writes and 260MBps reads on SATA channel 5 with a brand new ADATA SSD. Settings confirmed per Johnnie Black's post. Any ideas? Is it possible the patched versions for N40Ls and N54Ls are not compat with N36Ls? If that were the case, I'd expect a lot of other things to not be working properly... According to discussion here: http://www.nathanielperez.us/blog/hp-proliant-n40l-bios-modification-guide, it should also work on N36L. Wonder why my speeds are such garbage

Anyone know if these will work on an N36L as well, or is it going to brick it?