Yours sounds close to mine -- I've got 4 x 9 instead of 3x9 with Seagate
ST39140W's synced at 40MB/s on a aic7880: Ultra Wide
Here's my benchmark on a PIII/550:
tiobench.pl
No size specified, using 1024 MB
Size is MB, BlkSz is Bytes, Read, Write, and Seeks are MB/secd . -T
File Block Num Seq Read Rand Read Seq Write Rand Write
Dir Size Size Thr Rate (CPU%) Rate (CPU%) Rate (CPU%) Rate (CPU%)
------- ------ ------- --- ----------- ----------- ----------- -----------
. 1024 4096 1 17.27 13.3% 0.647 1.07% 16.66 33.3% 0.486 0.59%
. 1024 4096 2 18.38 14.0% 0.797 1.32% 16.32 33.1% 0.494 0.60%
. 1024 4096 4 18.81 14.2% 0.944 1.53% 16.29 33.0% 0.495 0.60%
. 1024 4096 8 18.92 14.1% 1.073 1.83% 15.85 33.0% 0.498 0.60%
Individually these drives peg out at 14MB/sec so you do pick up some read
speed with RAID5.
And you won't get 20G from RAID1 -- you'll get 9G (one disk size) with two
mirrors.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gernot A. Weber" <gernot@tux-web.de>
To: <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 11:32 AM
Subject: RAID 5 faster than RAID 1
Hi,
I have a dual PIII-450 with 256MB of RAM here. I would like to build a
RAID 5 array with 3 9,1GB SCSI disks - each on its own channel. Will the
machine be powerfull enough to give a "fast" access to the disks?
Or should I go for a 20GB RAID 1 level?
Will the performance increase with more RAM?
Better use reiserfs or xfs on RAID?
Thanks in advance
Gernot A. Weber
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