On 8/24/06, Bucky Jordan <bjordan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Here's benchmarks of RAID5x4 vs RAID10x4 on a Dell Perc5/I with 300 GB 10k RPM SAS drives. I know these are bonnie 1.9 instead of the older version, but maybe it might still make for useful analysis of RAID5 vs. RAID10.
------ RAID5x4
i dont see the seeks here, am i missing something? [raid 10 dd]
1024000000 bytes transferred in 45.565848 secs (22472971 bytes/sec)
ouch. this is a problem with the controller. it should be higher than this but the raid 5 should edge it out regardless. try configuring the hardware as a jbod and doing the raid 10 in software. merlin