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Jason
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 Posted: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 23:19:40 Post Subject: RAID results... |
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I just got a RAID card from Deathstar in a trade and I'm pretty pumped... I have (4) 40GB ATA-133 Maxtor drives, 3 of which are DiamondMax Plus 8's... Two on the ATA-100 RAID controller in RAID 0, one on a standard ATA-133 IDE channel...
Sandra File System Benchmark results:
RAID O score - 52383 kB/s
IDE Channel score - 26650 kB/s
There's a speed boost!! 64kB chunks was my setup... anyone recommend anything better? I have an Iwill XP333-R running 2 10GB WD drives in RAID 0, and I'm pretty sure Deathstar talked me inot 64kb back when I set that rig up...
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JimBowy
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| Posted: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 23:30:36 Post Subject: |
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Do you have much data stored on the discs yet? I can't remember my RAID results but when I eventually re-do my setup I'll be sure to test my 2x 60GB Diamond Max 9's (ATA133) in RAID-0
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| Posted: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 23:35:00 Post Subject: |
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RAID 0 goodness... 
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That's cool, but you should consider some Seagate Barracuda 7200.2s. Mine does 51MB/s average without RAID and peaks at 60+.
It only does 37,000 KB/s in Sandra though.
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| Posted: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 04:24:43 Post Subject: Re: RAID results... |
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| Big Bruin wrote: | I just got a RAID card from Deathstar in a trade and I'm pretty pumped... I have (4) 40GB ATA-133 Maxtor drives, 3 of which are DiamondMax Plus 8's... Two on the ATA-100 RAID controller in RAID 0, one on a standard ATA-133 IDE channel...
Sandra Fiel System Benchmark results:
RAID O score - 52383 kB/s
IDE Channel score - 26650 kB/s
There's a speed boost!! 64kB chunks was my setup... anyone recommend anything better? I have an Iwill XP333-R running 2 10GB WD drives in RAID 0, and I'm pretty sure Deathstar talked me inot 64kb back when I set that rig up...
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The best "chunk (AKA Cluster Size or Allocation Unit Size) depends on many factors O/S, the drives, controller, your file and program usage, etc. The best way to find the optimum for your system is experiment, since you have plenty of space for a backup/image, it should be fairly easy to try different setups |
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You could probably drop down to 32K stripes and 4K disk clusters; then partition the main drive down to about 10GB and your scores should go up.....
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Jason
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Yeah Dud3!... why don't I go spend more money on it... 
I'm staying with these drives, and once the RAID array is partitioned and populated a bit, I'm sure I'll see the results improve. Right now that was comparing the full, near empty 80 GB RAID partition to a half full 20 GB partition on the IDE channel. Regardless, twice as fast is nice to me...
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Oh no doubt, I was just saying the 7200.2 would be an even bigger boost if you wanted to get them one day. I have a Diamondmax Plus 8 and a 7200.2, the Plus 8 doesn't stand a chance against the 7200.2.
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or why not a big RAID5 scsi array? or a terrabyte of ram?
Seems all BB wants is to make best use of his existing hareware. Not be talk into a $$$$ upgrade of his "inadequate" system. |
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Jason
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Exactly... Got the RAID card ina trade with Deathstar, and already had the hard drives just sitting here... Got the drives partitioned, maybe tonight I'll get my current partitions copied over...
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