IDE RAID Comparison

by Matthew Witheiler on June 18, 2001 4:31 AM EST

Complete Performance: RAID 5

RAID 5 Performance
SuperTrak100
AAA-UDMA
IDE Only
CCW01 28.5 28.5 38.5
File server Low
Total I/O/sec 70.44107 64.25565 72.31409
Total MB/sec 0.765217 0.703336 0.800398
Avg I/O response 14.19397 15.56021 13.82637
CPU Util 0.954765 0.591968 0.894611
File server Med
Total I/O/sec 85.14026 88.31788 115.9632
Total MB/sec 0.925371 0.956352 1.254932
Avg I/O response 375.7635 362.2482 275.8972
CPU Util 1.304 0.719377 1.25258
File server High
Total I/O/sec 97.5079 100.7005 132.4862
Total MB/sec 1.055822 1.075972 1.433341
Avg I/O response 1310.89 1269.965 965.457
CPU Util 1.469549 0.898099 1.694932
Database Low
Total I/O/sec 72.30849 59.4603 71.2335
Total MB/sec 0.56491 0.464534 0.556512
Avg I/O response 13.82739 16.81475 14.0341
CPU Util 1.131753 0.714503 0.979878
Database Med
Total I/O/sec 85.02478 83.16301 115.8976
Total MB/sec 0.664256 0.649711 0.90545
Avg I/O response 376.042 384.6634 276.0633
CPU Util 1.298672 0.903044 1.434361
Database High
Total I/O/sec 97.95414 94.37823 132.4817
Total MB/sec 0.765267 0.73733 1.035013
Avg I/O response 1306.185 1355.043 965.5515
CPU Util 1.458835 0.944821 1.549068
Workstation Low
Total I/O/sec 81.10146 74.34632 85.83641
Total MB/sec 0.633605 0.580831 0.670597
Avg I/O response 12.32774 13.44816 11.64828
CPU Util 1.123447 0.682773 0.941466
Workstation Med
Total I/O/sec 95.8 99.2 132.8
Total MB/sec 0.75 0.78 1.04
Avg I/O response 333.83 322.41 240.94
CPU Util 1.35 0.9 1.45
Workstation High
Total I/O/sec 110.2732 112.3077 150.7187
Total MB/sec 0.861509 0.877404 1.17749
Avg I/O response 1159.93 1138.763 848.6778
CPU Util 1.480718 1.001548 1.61234
Performance: RAID 5 Performance: RAID 1
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  • kburrows - Thursday, December 4, 2003 - link

    Have you run any tests on any onboard RAID solutions for RAID 0 & 1? I would love to see the results posted for the new SATA RAID on the Intel 875 boards.
  • Anonymous User - Sunday, August 17, 2003 - link

    In adressing the performance of an raid array with different stripe sizes, you miss an important factor, namely the accestime of an disk. This wait time has two main couses. First the head positioning and second the rotational latency (the heads track the right trace, but position where the read start has not passed under the head). You may have to wait from 0 to (in the worst case) a full cycle.
    Since the disks move independently You can calculate that the average latency to get an small file is minimal when the stripe size is about an full cycle of an disk in the array (aprox. 250kB today). All other factors I do know do not reduce this. (controller overhead, transport,...)
    So I think that today a minimum stripe size of 256kB should be used.

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