I'm in the middle of testing this controller on an ES40 (4 CPU Alpha).
I should get some numbers next week. So far with a 4+p RAID 5 I'm
seeing about 17MB/s write performance with a single chain. I think
these are only 7200 RPM drive. I don't really care about read
performance but that was up around 30MB/s. Next week I should be
testing with 2 cards per server with 3 chains on one and 2 chains on
another. I'm trying to reach 100MB/s write performance on a single
server. I really doubt I'll get that with this card, I'm nearly
certain I'll have to go with an external Fibre Channel solution with a
smart enclosure.
BAPper
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 12:58:42PM -0500, Kenneth Cornetet wrote:
> I had a 2 channel 1164 in a dual 450 PIII (256MB ram) with 4 18GB Seagate
> LVD 10K RPM drives in RAID 5. WIth all defaults, except 4K block size of the
> ext2 file system, I got about 22MB/sec reads and writes according to Bonnie.
> Best I remember, the 4K block size made a fairly large improvement over
> absolute defaults.
>
> I didn't have time to tweak any settings on the 1164
>
> This was a stock redhat 6.0 system.
>
> Unfortunately, box only ran linux for about an hour. Alas, it was destined
> to be an NT machine.
>
> I wished someone would port Bonnie (or tiotest) to NT.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Mauritz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 11:29 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: ExtremeRAID 1100 benchmarks
>
>
> Has anyone done any benchmarks with the Mylex ExtremeRAID 1100? I'm
> planning on getting one of the 3 channel ones with 64mb cache. Initially,
> it will be delivered on a dual PIII-750mhz machine with NT, but I'd like to
> repurpose this as a Linux file server. It will have an external enclosure
> with 8 18gig 10,000rpm IBM Deskstars and one hot spare. Can anyone hazard a
> guess at the kind of performance I can expect from such an array?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
> Chris Mauritz
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
