On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 08:38 +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > On Wednesday July 13, jdc@xxxxxx wrote: > > Here's a question for people running software raid-5: do you get > > significantly better read speed from a raid-5 device than from it's > > component partitions/hard drives, using the simple dd test I did? > > SCSI-160 bus, using just 4 of the 15000rpm drives: > > each drive by itself delivers about 67M/s > Three drives in parallel deliver 40M/s each, total of 120M/s > 4 give 30M/s each or a total of 120M/s > > raid5 over 4 drives delivers 132M/s why here a 132MB/s instead of 120MB/s (3 * 40MB/s) as u mentioned? any factor lead to this increase? > > (We've just ordered a SCSI-320 card to make better use of the drives). > > So with top-quality (and price) hardware, it seems to do the right > thing. > > NeilBrown > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
