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Doctor Feelgood Arrrrghh!
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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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BeerCheeze *hick*
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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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Dud3! Forum abandoner
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T-shirt Rated XXX
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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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Charlie DeathStar
Joined: 24 Sep 2003 Posts: 10801 Location: Orlando, FL
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Posted: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 05:12:26 Post Subject: |
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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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Doctor Feelgood Arrrrghh!
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Posted: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:52:58 Post Subject: |
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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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Doctor Feelgood Arrrrghh!
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Posted: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 07:08:00 Post Subject: |
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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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