IDE RAID Comparison

by Matthew Witheiler on June 18, 2001 4:31 AM EST

Complete Performance: Promise SuperTrak100

Promise SuperTrak100
  1KB 2KB 4KB 8KB 16KB 32KB 64KB 12K8KB 256KB 512KB 1024KB
CCW01 37.4 38.2 38.7 37.7 38.4 38.5 39 39 39.5 38.4 38.4
File server Low                      
Total I/O/sec 67.12005 66.7399 68.0414 71.38657 73.7661 75.06172 74.55458 75.29941 77.98196 78.2779 78.10587
Total MB/sec 0.710424 0.73174 0.73448 0.770902 0.800466 0.808513 0.799331 0.813581 0.839697 0.852504 0.837103
Avg I/O response 14.45323 14.9808 14.6948 14.00631 13.5539 13.32025 13.41028 13.27661 12.82096 12.77201 12.80111
CPU Util 1.482699 1.3254 1.39504 1.343758 0.942509 1.281537 1.353274 1.45521 1.353354 1.499368 1.225796
File server Med                      
Total I/O/sec 87.46062 87.2386 88.9403 92.80042 94.86779 96.55235 95.74918 96.3978 99.23468 99.40937 99.64426
Total MB/sec 0.944761 0.95725 0.95413 1.000568 1.030867 1.049752 1.022847 1.044978 1.078611 1.080527 1.07305
Avg I/O response 365.763475 368.589 359.561 344.61996 337.2032 331.3549 334.1284 331.8347 322.3957 321.787 321.0314
CPU Util 1.573113 1.66668 1.65819 1.776742 1.240699 1.611452 1.700047 1.721831 1.58964 1.676577 1.421107
File server High                      
Total I/O/sec 95.39213 95.2869 96.8453 101.6889 105.2693 106.784 106.1719 107.5983 110.2461 110.7789 110.9654
Total MB/sec 1.027482 1.02302 1.03752 1.120983 1.148083 1.171375 1.153509 1.171477 1.175404 1.203587 1.212442
Avg I/O response 1339.67755 1341.26 1319.91 1257.581 1214.627 1197.363 1204.277 1188.289 1160.027 1154.106 1152.861
CPU Util 1.711693 1.76509 1.85955 1.836471 1.360957 1.901578 1.881995 1.830311 1.99722 2.037145 1.801851
Database Low                      
Total I/O/sec 69.09686 67.3382 68.9268 69.9527 77.09841 81.45626 82.07396 82.77721 86.57783 86.4156 86.46775
Total MB/sec 0.539819 0.53698 0.53849 0.546505 0.602331 0.636377 0.641203 0.646697 0.676389 0.675122 0.675529
Avg I/O response 14.470205 14.5463 14.5659 14.29212 12.96805 12.27385 12.18229 12.0785 11.54825 11.5699 11.56303
CPU Util 1.363821 1.40719 1.54405 1.291963 1.098411 1.39884 1.42053 1.677575 1.522373 1.707581 1.313737
Database Med                      
Total I/O/sec 86.41607 85.8631 86.0781 87.49403 96.540041 101.4864 101.8905 103.4112 103.3124 106.6987 106.6974
Total MB/sec 0.675126 0.67081 0.67249 0.683547 0.753909 0.792863 0.796019 0.8079 0.830566 0.833583 0.833573
Avg I/O response 370.229549 378.125 371.626 365.61587 331.5631 315.1881 313.9804 309.3473 300.8615 299.7763 299.8674
CPU Util 1.539031 1.514 1.78433 1.856098 1.397179 1.844496 1.809413 1.816077 1.720956 1.765902 1.587451
Database High                      
Total I/O/sec 95.10542 94.8278 94.8804 96.28764 107.0218 112.8167 114.3271 115.6289 118.6619 119.4283 119.713
Total MB/sec 0.743011 0.74084 0.74125 0.752247 0.836108 0.88138 0.89318 0.903351 0.927046 0.933033 0.935258
Avg I/O response 1344.9083 1347.44 1348.37 1327.356 1195.257 1133.232 1119.056 1106.587 1077.37 1070.372 1067.916
CPU Util 1.77274 1.65756 1.75597 1.988084 1.465632 1.946343 1.839303 2.146408 1.771015 1.919541 1.842781
Workstation Low                      
Total I/O/sec 75.89715 75.8349 76.0327 76.49338 78.63168 84.16026 85.33085 87.08861 91.79598 91.85746 91.6449
Total MB/sec 0.592947 0.59246 0.59401 0.597605 0.61431 0.657502 0.666647 0.68038 0.717156 0.717636 0.715976
Avg I/O response 13.173596 13.1844 13.1496 13.07045 12.71545 11.87967 11.71728 11.48065 10.89046 10.88439 10.90994
CPU Util 1.565722 1.54739 1.54399 1.398773 1.125112 1.510667 1.532374 1.707658 1.510625 1.685889 1.417205
Workstation Med                      
Total I/O/sec 96.8112 96.7732 97.3077 97.97584 101.2399 106.4841 108.6437 110.0267 113.8189 114.1943 114.3564
Total MB/sec 0.756337 0.75604 0.76022 0.765436 0.790937 0.831907 0.848779 0.859583 0.889211 0.892143 0.893409
Avg I/O response 330.370583 333.358 328.705 326.45661 316.0336 300.3906 294.4176 290.7395 281.0522 280.1705 279.7864
CPU Util 1.710912 1.71926 1.8327 1.762635 1.43891 1.994656 1.807781 1.832817 1.936305 1.75927 1.729295
Workstation High                      
Total I/O/sec 104.9817 105.124 105.385 105.9808 110.788 117.577 120.8391 122.8812 126.1852 127.1693 126.7841
Total MB/sec 0.82017 0.82128 0.82332 0.827975 0.865531 0.91857 0.944055 0.960009 0.985822 0.99351 0.990501
Avg I/O response 1218.14682 1216.74 1213.45 1206.976 1154.397 1087.875 1058.749 1041.081 1015.058 1005.736 1008.638
CPU Util 1.739309 2.10648 1.93782 1.907984 1.47564 1.929605 2.134907 2.224847 1.957912 2.004625 1.864465
Performance: Promise SuperTrak100 Performance: RAID 0
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  • kburrows - Thursday, December 4, 2003 - link

    Have you run any tests on any onboard RAID solutions for RAID 0 & 1? I would love to see the results posted for the new SATA RAID on the Intel 875 boards.
  • Anonymous User - Sunday, August 17, 2003 - link

    In adressing the performance of an raid array with different stripe sizes, you miss an important factor, namely the accestime of an disk. This wait time has two main couses. First the head positioning and second the rotational latency (the heads track the right trace, but position where the read start has not passed under the head). You may have to wait from 0 to (in the worst case) a full cycle.
    Since the disks move independently You can calculate that the average latency to get an small file is minimal when the stripe size is about an full cycle of an disk in the array (aprox. 250kB today). All other factors I do know do not reduce this. (controller overhead, transport,...)
    So I think that today a minimum stripe size of 256kB should be used.

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