IDE RAID Comparison

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

Complete Performance: RAID 0

RAID 0 Performance
IDE Only SuperTrak100 AAA-UDMA MegaRAID 100 FastTrak100 SIDE RAID100
CCW01 38.5 39.5 40.4 43 43 43.4
File server Low
Total I/O/sec 72.31409 77.98196 78.93444 83.36 79.76 81.23027
Total MB/sec 0.800398 0.839697 0.854708 0.89 0.87 0.872817
Avg I/O response 13.82637 12.82096 12.66574 11.9941 12.5356 12.30844
CPU Util 0.894611 1.353354 0.61168 1.74 1.04 1.078711
File server Med
Total I/O/sec 115.9632 99.23468 112.5718 118.55 116.99 118.5643
Total MB/sec 1.254932 1.078611 1.225276 1.28 1.25 1.285013
Avg I/O response 275.8972 322.3957 284.1708 269.887 273.463 269.8303
CPU Util 1.25258 1.58964 0.846381 2.17 1.43 1.379497
File server High
Total I/O/sec 132.4862 110.2461 128.7369 136.8 134.04 135.3279
Total MB/sec 1.433341 1.175404 1.406467 1.49 1.46 1.472532
Avg I/O response 965.457 1160.027 933.4825 935.273 954.199 945.1867
CPU Util 1.694932 1.99722 0.931563 2.47 1.64 1.583297
Database Low
Total I/O/sec 71.2335 86.57783 83.64126 88.4 83.76 86.47777
Total MB/sec 0.556512 0.676389 0.653447 0.69 0.65 0.675608
Avg I/O response 14.0341 11.54825 11.95336 11.3094 11.9361 11.56147
CPU Util 0.979878 1.522373 0.737914 1.77 1.22 1.145151
Database Med
Total I/O/sec 115.8976 103.3124 119.458 126.62 122.61 125.5406
Total MB/sec 0.90545 0.830566 0.933327 0.99 0.96 0.980786
Avg I/O response 276.0633 300.8615 267.8315 252.682 260.931 254.8234
CPU Util 1.434361 1.720956 0.924751 2.28 1.35 1.53401
Database High
Total I/O/sec 132.4817 118.6619 137.639 146.62 142.2 143.0439
Total MB/sec 1.035013 0.927046 1.075305 1.15 1.11 1.117531
Avg I/O response 965.5515 1077.37 929.4414 872.655 899.442 894.1836
CPU Util 1.549068 1.771015 0.984666 2.61 1.66 1.609178
Workstation Low
Total I/O/sec 85.83641 91.79598 92.19003 98.37 93.42 95.4477
Total MB/sec 0.670597 0.717156 0.720235 0.77 0.73 0.745685
Avg I/O response 11.64828 10.89046 10.84406 10.1627 10.7014 10.47502
CPU Util 0.941466 1.510625 0.776303 1.84 1.27 1.140158
Workstation Med
Total I/O/sec 132.8 113.8 125.9 134.5 130.3 132.5
Total MB/sec 1.04 0.889 0.983 1.05 1.02 1.04
Avg I/O response 240.94 281.05 254.08 237.93 245.48 241.45
CPU Util 1.45 1.93 0.97 2.39 1.46 1.45
Workstation High
Total I/O/sec 150.7187 126.1852 143.8035 154.52 150 150.7452
Total MB/sec 1.17749 0.985822 1.123465 1.21 1.17 1.177697
Avg I/O response 848.6778 1015.058 889.3829 827.948 852.915 848.5587
CPU Util 1.61234 1.957912 1.091622 2.62 1.7 1.812719
Performance: RAID 0 Performance: RAID 5
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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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