On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 00:43:05 +0200 Sami N��t�nen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> PS. I has integrated ide raid which is half HW half SW from ITE. It > works well and is quite speedy too. Under normal system load (mp3 > listening etc) two ibm 120GB HD's as RAID 1 gives these results. > Smaller result from the two consecutive runs. > > high-voltage /home/sami # hdparm -tT /dev/sda > /dev/sda: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 2712 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1356.00 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 140 MB in 3.00 seconds = 43.56 MB/sec > On my P4P800 system with 3 drives, here are stats 3ware Escalade 7006 card connected to 32 bit PCI 2.2 with 133MB/s max transfer, 2 WD 80GB Caviar drives RAID 1 # hdparm -tT /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 2956 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1478.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 138 MB in 3.01 seconds = 45.85 MB/sec 80GB WD Caviar single drive connected to IDE on MB: # hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 2908 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1454.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 140 MB in 3.02 seconds = 46.36 MB/sec This is a dev machine where I'm not too concerned about performance, and I don't know if these numbers are good or bad (relative to other IDE RAID solutions)...just posting the stats. Not much load when I ran the tests. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
