IDE RAID Comparison

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

Complete Performance: RAID 1

RAID 1 Performance
AAA-UDMA
SuperTrak100
FastTrak100
IDE Only
SIDE RAID100
MegaRAID 100
CCW01 35.4 36 38.1 38.5 39.1 39.5
File server Low
Total I/O/sec 71.84088 80.17033 81.24 72.31409 75.40166 74.52
Total MB/sec 0.765489 0.878465 0.89 0.800398 0.831817 0.81
Avg I/O response 13.917 12.073732 12.3057 13.82637 13.26002 13.4167
CPU Util 0.596753 1.073732 1.11 0.894611 1.004935 1.7
File server Med
Total I/O/sec 110.9632 96.01303 113.77 115.9632 117.1143 114.16
Total MB/sec 1.198263 1.035771 1.23 1.254932 1.269665 1.22
Avg I/O response 288.3103 333.2256 281.212 275.8972 273.1716 280.284
CPU Util 0.90666 1.407705 1.33 1.25258 1.427925 2.2
File server High
Total I/O/sec 124.7053 105.4753 131.18 132.4862 132.8397 130.21
Total MB/sec 1.339324 1.125384 1.41 1.433341 1.439469 1.41
Avg I/O response 1025.75 1212.078 974.849 965.457 962.9287 982.49
CPU Util 1.08758 1.594545 1.48 1.694932 1.57466 2.52
Database Low
Total I/O/sec 71.66333 82.99024 77.4 71.2335 75.48504 72.71
Total MB/sec 0.55987 0.648361 0.6 0.556512 0.589727 0.57
Avg I/O response 13.95172 12.04376 12.9166 14.0341 13.24494 13.7492
CPU Util 0.774591 1.295239 1.09 0.979878 1.095085 1.73
Database Med
Total I/O/sec 112.1667 95.4798 113.46 115.8976 116.6244 112.74
Total MB/sec 0.876303 0.745936 0.89 0.90545 0.911128 0.88
Avg I/O response 285.1995 335.1254 281.93 276.0633 274.3215 283.787
CPU Util 0.95822 1.418879 1.38 1.434361 1.487205 2.33
Database High
Total I/O/sec 126.0247 106.4353 131.87 132.4817 133.2462 130.25
Total MB/sec 0.984568 0.831526 1.03 1.035013 1.040986 1.02
Avg I/O response 1014.974 1200.898 970.104 965.5515 959.9097 982.319
CPU Util 1.111758 1.59232 1.62 1.549068 1.684221 2.67
Workstation Low
Total I/O/sec 85.6204 93.84052 94.34 85.83641 90.1141 87.73
Total MB/sec 0.668909 0.733129 0.74 0.670597 0.704016 0.69
Avg I/O response 11.67704 10.65443 10.5971 11.64828 11.09437 11.3956
CPU Util 0.829715 1.19184 1.27 0.941466 1.275376 1.94
Workstation Med
Total I/O/sec 127.12 109.85 130.11 132.79 133.68 129.63
Total MB/sec 0.99 0.86 1.02 1.038 1.04 1.01
Avg I/O response 251.658 291.119 246.092 240.941 239.346 246.806
CPU Util 1.02 1.44 1.54 1.44 1.48 2.56
Workstation High
Total I/O/sec 141.8096 120.0808 149.7 150.7187 150.5597 147.59
Total MB/sec 1.107887 0.938131 1.17 1.17749 1.176348 1.15
Avg I/O response 902.0593 1065.201 854.563 848.6778 849.669 866.961
CPU Util 1.228573 1.637439 1.74 1.61234 1.675899 2.97
Performance: RAID 1 Conclusion
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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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