On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 02:37:35PM -0500, Tim Cook wrote: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Damjan Perenic ... > I shopped for 1TB 7200rpm drives recently and I noticed Seagate > Barracude ES.2 has 1TB version with SATA and SAS interface. > > On the flip side, according to storage review, the SATA version trumps the > SAS version in pretty much everything but throughput (which is still > negligible). > > [5]http://www.storagereview.com/php/benchmark/suite_v4.php?typeID=10&testbed > ID=4&osID=6&raidconfigID=1&numDrives=1&devID_0=354&devID_1=362&devCnt=2 > --Tim
Just in case if interested in SATA, perhaps this helps (made on an almost idle system): elkner.sol /pool2 > uname -a SunOS sol 5.11 snv_98 i86pc i386 i86xpv elkner.sol /rpool > prtdiag System Configuration: Intel S5000PAL BIOS Configuration: Intel Corporation S5000.86B.10.00.0091.081520081046 08/15/2008 BMC Configuration: IPMI 2.0 (KCS: Keyboard Controller Style) ==== Processor Sockets ==================================== Version Location Tag -------------------------------- -------------------------- Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5440 @ 2.83GHz CPU1 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5440 @ 2.83GHz CPU2 ... elkner.sol /pool2 > + /usr/X11/bin/scanpci | grep -i sata Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB SATA AHCI Controller elkner.sol ~ > iostat -E | \ awk '/^sd/ { print $1; getline; print; getline; print }' sd0 Vendor: ATA Product: ST3250310NS Revision: SN05 Serial No: Size: 250.06GB <250059350016 bytes> sd1 Vendor: ATA Product: ST3250310NS Revision: SN04 Serial No: Size: 250.06GB <250059350016 bytes> sd2 Vendor: ATA Product: ST3250310NS Revision: SN04 Serial No: Size: 250.06GB <250059350016 bytes> sd3 Vendor: ATA Product: ST3250310NS Revision: SN05 Serial No: Size: 250.06GB <250059350016 bytes> sd5 Vendor: ATA Product: ST31000340NS Revision: SN06 Serial No: Size: 1000.20GB <1000204886016 bytes> sd6 Vendor: ATA Product: ST31000340NS Revision: SN06 Serial No: Size: 1000.20GB <1000204886016 bytes> elkner.sol ~ > zpool status | grep ONLINE state: ONLINE pool1 ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 state: ONLINE pool2 ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t4d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t5d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 state: ONLINE rpool ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t1d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 elkner.sol /pool2 > + time sh -c "mkfile 4g xx; sync; echo ST31000340NS" ST31000340NS real 3:55.2 user 0.0 sys 1.9 elkner.sol ~ > iostat -zmnx c1t4d0 c1t5d0 5 | grep -v device 0.0 154.2 0.0 19739.4 3.0 32.0 19.4 207.5 100 100 c1t4d0 0.0 125.8 0.0 16103.9 3.0 32.0 23.8 254.3 100 100 c1t5d0 0.0 133.0 0.0 16366.9 2.4 25.9 17.9 194.4 80 82 c1t4d0 0.0 158.0 0.0 19592.5 2.8 30.3 17.6 191.7 93 96 c1t5d0 0.0 159.4 0.0 20054.8 2.8 30.3 17.7 190.2 94 95 c1t4d0 0.0 140.2 0.0 17597.2 2.8 30.3 20.1 216.4 94 95 c1t5d0 0.0 134.8 0.0 16298.7 2.0 23.0 15.2 170.8 68 76 c1t4d0 0.0 154.4 0.0 18807.5 2.7 29.3 17.3 189.9 89 94 c1t5d0 0.0 188.4 0.0 24115.5 3.0 32.0 15.9 169.8 100 100 c1t4d0 0.0 159.8 0.0 20454.6 3.0 32.0 18.8 200.2 100 100 c1t5d0 0.0 120.0 0.0 14328.3 2.0 22.2 16.4 184.9 66 71 c1t4d0 0.0 143.2 0.0 17169.9 2.6 28.2 18.0 197.1 86 93 c1t5d0 0.0 157.0 0.0 19140.9 2.6 29.3 16.5 186.9 87 96 c1t4d0 0.0 169.2 0.0 20676.9 2.2 24.8 13.2 146.6 75 79 c1t5d0 0.0 156.2 0.0 19993.8 3.0 32.0 19.2 204.8 100 100 c1t4d0 0.0 140.4 0.0 17971.3 3.0 32.0 21.3 227.9 100 100 c1t5d0 0.0 138.8 0.0 16759.6 2.6 29.3 18.4 210.9 86 94 c1t4d0 0.0 146.6 0.0 17809.2 2.7 29.6 18.4 201.7 90 94 c1t5d0 0.0 133.8 0.0 16196.8 2.5 28.0 18.9 209.3 85 90 c1t4d0 0.0 134.0 0.0 16222.4 2.6 28.7 19.5 214.3 87 94 c1t5d0 r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device elkner.sol /pool1 > + time sh -c 'mkfile 4g xx; sync; echo ST3250310NS' ST3250310NS real 1:33.5 user 0.0 sys 2.0 elkner.sol ~ > iostat -zmnx c1t2d0 c1t3d0 5 | grep -v device 0.2 408.6 1.6 49336.8 25.7 0.8 62.8 1.9 79 79 c1t3d0 0.2 432.6 1.6 53284.4 29.9 0.9 69.0 2.1 89 89 c1t2d0 0.2 456.0 1.6 56280.0 28.6 0.9 62.6 1.9 86 86 c1t3d0 0.8 389.8 17.6 45360.7 25.8 0.8 66.0 2.1 81 80 c1t2d0 0.4 368.6 3.2 42698.0 21.1 0.6 57.3 1.8 65 65 c1t3d0 1.0 432.4 8.0 52615.8 30.2 0.9 69.6 2.1 91 91 c1t2d0 0.0 457.8 0.0 56423.3 28.3 0.8 61.8 1.8 85 84 c1t3d0 1.0 418.4 11.2 50232.5 28.7 0.9 68.4 2.1 89 89 c1t2d0 0.8 406.4 8.0 48089.0 25.0 0.8 61.5 2.0 80 79 c1t3d0 0.6 381.4 4.8 42019.3 23.9 0.8 62.7 2.1 80 80 c1t2d0 0.4 387.0 3.2 42580.9 21.7 0.7 56.0 1.8 70 70 c1t3d0 0.4 392.8 4.8 48067.8 30.6 0.9 77.9 2.3 92 92 c1t2d0 0.4 372.4 3.2 45343.2 27.5 0.8 73.8 2.2 82 83 c1t3d0 0.6 324.4 16.0 38879.6 29.8 0.9 91.6 2.8 90 91 c1t2d0 0.8 329.0 40.0 39828.9 28.6 0.9 86.8 2.6 87 87 c1t3d0 0.0 296.2 0.0 34579.9 26.5 0.9 89.6 3.1 90 90 c1t2d0 0.4 288.2 14.4 33361.7 23.6 0.7 81.8 2.6 73 74 c1t3d0 0.8 341.8 6.4 41018.7 29.1 1.2 85.0 3.6 88 95 c1t2d0 2.4 344.2 20.8 41377.1 29.3 1.7 84.6 4.9 89 96 c1t3d0 3.8 338.4 209.6 38739.9 26.3 0.9 76.8 2.5 85 86 c1t2d0 3.6 340.4 207.6 38893.5 23.4 0.8 68.0 2.2 76 76 c1t3d0 0.2 401.6 1.6 48459.1 27.2 0.8 67.7 2.1 85 85 c1t2d0 0.6 411.8 6.4 49058.0 24.9 0.8 60.3 1.8 77 76 c1t3d0 0.2 443.0 1.6 54939.5 30.5 0.9 68.8 2.1 92 92 c1t2d0 0.4 451.4 3.2 56184.2 29.0 0.9 64.3 1.9 87 87 c1t3d0 1.4 412.6 12.8 49317.5 26.8 0.9 64.8 2.1 85 85 c1t2d0 r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device elkner.sol /rpool > + time sh -c 'mkfile 4g xx; sync; echo ST3250310NS' ST3250310NS real 55.2 user 0.0 sys 1.8 elkner.sol ~ > iostat -zmnx c1t0d0 c1t1d0 5 | grep -v device 0.0 660.8 0.0 81796.7 11.7 16.3 17.7 24.7 78 83 c1t0d0 0.0 657.0 0.0 81335.9 11.3 18.7 17.2 28.5 83 89 c1t1d0 0.0 607.2 0.0 75039.6 10.9 15.2 18.0 25.0 73 77 c1t0d0 0.0 614.8 0.0 75986.9 10.7 18.2 17.3 29.6 81 86 c1t1d0 0.0 649.0 0.0 81454.7 12.4 15.6 19.1 24.1 80 81 c1t0d0 0.0 660.8 0.0 83016.3 12.7 19.6 19.2 29.7 91 94 c1t1d0 0.0 723.0 0.0 91469.4 13.7 17.9 18.9 24.8 90 92 c1t0d0 0.0 683.8 0.0 86452.1 13.5 18.8 19.7 27.4 90 94 c1t1d0 0.0 462.6 0.0 56758.7 5.9 22.0 12.8 47.5 78 83 c1t0d0 0.0 501.0 0.0 61725.3 6.4 24.5 12.7 48.8 87 91 c1t1d0 0.0 568.4 0.0 71384.5 8.9 20.9 15.6 36.7 85 88 c1t0d0 0.0 559.8 0.0 70334.9 8.1 24.6 14.4 44.0 92 95 c1t1d0 0.0 636.0 0.0 80171.5 14.0 17.4 22.0 27.3 89 91 c1t0d0 0.0 584.6 0.0 73693.8 13.9 18.9 23.8 32.3 94 95 c1t1d0 0.0 604.2 0.0 75505.2 10.0 16.9 16.5 28.0 76 79 c1t0d0 0.0 630.2 0.0 78730.2 11.2 19.3 17.7 30.7 86 90 c1t1d0 0.0 563.6 0.0 69714.6 9.6 17.2 17.0 30.5 75 79 c1t0d0 0.0 595.0 0.0 73632.5 9.6 21.6 16.1 36.3 88 92 c1t1d0 0.0 573.0 0.0 71691.8 12.5 15.6 21.9 27.2 80 82 c1t0d0 0.0 578.4 0.0 72306.2 12.9 18.9 22.3 32.7 90 92 c1t1d0 r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device Finally: 17.4 vs. 43.8 vs. 74.2 MB/s It seems odd, since rpool (SATA0,SATA1) and pool1 (SATA2,SATA3) have the same disks and capacity of ~60%, pool2 (SATA4,SATA5) has 0%. So very roughly 1st 600, 2nd 400, 3rd 200 iops. My guess is, that there is a driver or BIOS/FW problem. Upgrade to snv_b124 and BIOS/FW to latest release is scheduled for the end of october, than I may know a little bit more ... Regards, jel. PS: Sorry, for the long posting :( -- Otto-von-Guericke University http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ Department of Computer Science Geb. 29 R 027, Universitaetsplatz 2 39106 Magdeburg, Germany Tel: +49 391 67 12768 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss