Raid0 256kb ( Mac Pro 2019 ) Finder slow on accessing large amount of small files ( 2mb )

So, I have a mac Pro 2019 with the Sonnet PCIe Silent Card and 4x4To NVME drives all configured in Raid0 256kb block size ( I used the Disk Utility Assistant ). Running Disk Benchmarks software gives me advertised reading / writing speeds ( around 11G/s, although after extensive work period, performance can drop quite significantly, not sure if it's normal or not ).


Issue is that the Mac Finder is really slow at loading ( displaying ) a large amount ( over 200 ) of small files ( around 2mb size ). As a comparision, my Back Up HDDs ( that benchmark at around 300mb/s, so considerably slower than the Raid0 ) are able to load those files almost 3x time faster... I am a bit puzzled as to why ?


Worth noting is that I'm a sound designer, so I work with quite large files ( more than 1gb ), a lot of medium sized ones ( around 30 / 50mb ), I do use Kontakt Libraries and my DAW ( audio workstation ) creates a small back file every minute in a single folder ( those files start at 500kb and can go up to 5mb ).


Mac Pro, macOS 13.6

Posted on Jan 31, 2024 4:59 PM

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Jan 31, 2024 5:25 PM in response to tibo98

Check that TRIM is enabled, as SSD performance on active devices drops off fast when that or similar is unavailable and the SSD erase operation moves from erase-on-delete to erase-before-use.


Also see if any of the NVMe devices are reporting issues, using whatever controller diagnostic tools are available.


You’ll probably need to pursue this with Sonnet.


And as the IT joke goes, 0 is number of concurrent errors permitted with RAID-0 striping. But you know that.

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