RAID results...

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 23:19:40 Post Subject: RAID results...

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...

Cool

**JimBowy** · Moderator Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 1627

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

BeerCheeze · Posted: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 23:35:00 Post Subject:

RAID 0 goodness... King

Dud3! · Posted: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 00:45:53 Post Subject:

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.

T-shirt · Posted: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 04:24:43 Post Subject: Re: RAID results...

Charlie · Posted: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 05:12:26 Post Subject:

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.....

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:52:58 Post Subject:

Yeah Dud3!... why don't I go spend more money on it... Laughing

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...

Dud3! · Posted: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 20:05:04 Post Subject:

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.

T-shirt · Posted: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 02:14:30 Post Subject:

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.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 07:08:00 Post Subject:

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... Cool