[SLE] Thinking about 3ware and Raid 1+0 performance

From: Greg Freemyer (freemyer-ml_at_NorcrossGroup.com)
Date: 08/29/03

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    Earlier this week I put a 4-channel 3ware card into a new SuSE box.

    I set it up as Raid 1+0 with default stripe size.

    Then I performed the following on 3 different setups:

    sync; date; dd if=/dev/zero of=target bs=64k count=100000; sync; date

    There was no other activity on the machines and all had the same
    motherboard and disk drives (7200rpm ATAs).

    I tried

    Pure ATA
    3-ware Raid 1
    3-ware Raid 1+0

    To my great surprise I found pure ATA to be the fastest and Raid 1+0 to
    be the slowest by far. (30% slower than Raid 1)

    In particular using iostat -d 10 during the above test I was only
    getting 15,000 blocks per second being written out. I was expecting
    50,000 blocks per second.

    Is there anyone useing 3ware with Raid 1+0 that is getting higher
    throughput than 15,000?

    If so, can you give details of your config.

    Thanks
    Greg 

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