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Re: Harddrive performance: Promise SATA RAID under Redhat 9

Postby acher » Sun, 07 Dec 2003 10:35:22 GMT 

In article < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >,
 Michael Heiming <michael+ XXXX@XXXXX.COM > writes:

|> That's pretty good, AFAIR I don't get much more out of 15K SCSI
|> disks with hw RAID controller. But then, those hdparm tests don't
|> tell much, real world I/O is different, you could try iozone or
|> alike, search freshmeat.net, there are dozens of I/O benchmarks.

Do you know a site which actually has comparisons of different configurations?
The  numbers are quite useless without any relation...
 
|> To get more out of your disks, you need to have multiple RAID1/5
|> disks and stripe over them RAID0 using lvm.

/dev/sda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  472 MB in  3.01 seconds = 156.86 MB/sec

;-) 3Ware SATA controller, RAID-5 with 5*250GB Maxtor disks. But I'd like to
know how this setup compares to real/expensive RAID/NAS-systems...

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Re: Harddrive performance: Promise SATA RAID under Redhat 9

Postby Michael Heiming » Wed, 10 Dec 2003 03:34:41 GMT 


[..]

Yep, don't know of any, but beside that AFAIK you don't get IDE
disks with 15K, the SCSI bus is what makes it obvious that if you
need real I/O you should get SCSI. Is it even possible with IDE
to add/remove hds to the system while running?




While this looks good, it doesn't say much, hdparm reads the data
AFAIK serial from the disk. On some db server there might be
numerous queries/updates running at once, despite all caching
happening you will need to write/read physical some time.

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Re: Harddrive performance: Promise SATA RAID under Redhat 9

Postby Ken Kauffman » Thu, 11 Dec 2003 08:14:39 GMT 




FYI.  The 3ware is hot swappable.  I answer my own question.  But I am still
concerned about drive construction and reliability in a data center.

ken k
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Re: Harddrive performance: Promise SATA RAID under Redhat 9

Postby Michael Heiming » Sun, 14 Dec 2003 06:33:44 GMT 


[..]


Yep, hot swap-able, but what about adding or removing drives,
configuring raid sets from Linux, rescanning the bus to add new
disks while running, like you can do with SCSI if you happen to
have the proper tool, which are available for many SCSI RAID
controller.

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1.Harddrive performance: Promise SATA RAID under Redhat 9 

Hey all

I have just installed some new servers here at work and am wanting to check
and optimize the hard drive performance as I think it is a bit dodgy.

The system specs are:

- P4 3GHz (with HyperThreading)
- 2GB RAM
- 2 x Seagate 120GB SATA drives (in a RAID 1 - mirrored RAID)
- Asus P4C-E Deluxe mobo
- Promise FastTrack (20)378 onboard SATA RAID controller
- RedHat 9 (customized) - 2.4.20-smp kernel (damn those RAID drivers)
- Currently using the Promise.com's FastTrak TX4000/376/378/S150 TX Series
Linux Driver

The drives are mirrored for data security but the read speed we are gettting
seems slow. This is especially the case reading a number of small files.
"hdparm -tT /dev/sda" returns

/dev/sda:
  Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.13 seconds =984.62 MB/sec
  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.39 seconds = 45.71 MB/sec

I have looked around the net for harddrive optimization pointers but they
all seem to be for single ATA/IDE drives. Just wondering if anyone had some
ideas. For instance, would switching to the native ATARAID driver be a
better option.. at least it would let us upgrade the kernel I guess.

Thanks!

Andrew

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