diff --git a/man/man5/zfs-module-parameters.5 b/man/man5/zfs-module-parameters.5
index 23f7efaec0..90226cfc67 100644
--- a/man/man5/zfs-module-parameters.5
+++ b/man/man5/zfs-module-parameters.5
@@ -883,7 +883,12 @@ Default value: \fB10\fR.
 Minimum asynchronous write I/Os active to each device.
 See the section "ZFS I/O SCHEDULER".
 .sp
-Default value: \fB1\fR.
+Lower values are associated with better latency on rotational media but poorer
+resilver performance. The default value of 2 was chosen as a compromise. A
+value of 3 has been shown to improve resilver performance further at a cost of
+further increasing latency.
+.sp
+Default value: \fB2\fR.
 .RE
 
 .sp
diff --git a/module/zfs/vdev_queue.c b/module/zfs/vdev_queue.c
index c4e80d517f..49f6fc57a5 100644
--- a/module/zfs/vdev_queue.c
+++ b/module/zfs/vdev_queue.c
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ uint32_t zfs_vdev_sync_write_min_active = 10;
 uint32_t zfs_vdev_sync_write_max_active = 10;
 uint32_t zfs_vdev_async_read_min_active = 1;
 uint32_t zfs_vdev_async_read_max_active = 3;
-uint32_t zfs_vdev_async_write_min_active = 1;
+uint32_t zfs_vdev_async_write_min_active = 2;
 uint32_t zfs_vdev_async_write_max_active = 10;
 uint32_t zfs_vdev_scrub_min_active = 1;
 uint32_t zfs_vdev_scrub_max_active = 2;