From: "David Lethe" <david@santools.com>
To: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Has anyone compared SWRAID for (JBOD@HW-RAID) vs. (Regular Sata PCI-e cards)?
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 9:06:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <181601c8b2a7$12fe0489$5209f40a@exchange.rackspace.com> (raw)
You can't generalize whether HW RAID is faster or slower than SW RAID.
I/O mix, CPU speed, bus type, RAM, file system type/config, queue depth, specific RAID card, drivers, firmware all have significant impact. Even with info you supply, one can easily model config where either RAID architecture will outperform the other.
if performance is vital for you on a certain pc config, then tune everything for HW RAID, test, rebuild for SW RAID, and compare. Don't forget to yank power to a disk while testing both to see how each work under stress, as well as when consistency checks run.
-----Original Message-----
From: "Justin Piszcz" <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Subj: Has anyone compared SWRAID for (JBOD@HW-RAID) vs. (Regular Sata PCI-e cards)?
Date: Sat May 10, 2008 4:23 am
Size: 844 bytes
To: "linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
I was curious if you have for example 5 PCI-e x8 slots:
1. 2x sata port card
2. 2x sata port card
3. 2x sata port card
4. 2x sata port card
5. 2x sata port card
Would that be faster than:
1. 16port 3ware (or) 16port areca
drives -> jbod
Does anyone here use SW RAID on the second configuration with 10,000 rpm
drives or more than ~10 drives in a RAID5? If so what kind of read/write
speed do you achieve? I am curious if a single card with that many ports,
even running jbod can really push the bandwidth you achieve by splitting
the drives up over multiple PCI-e slots as shown in the first example.
Justin.
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next reply other threads:[~2008-05-10 14:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-10 14:06 David Lethe [this message]
2008-05-10 14:15 ` Has anyone compared SWRAID for (JBOD@HW-RAID) vs. (Regular Sata PCI-e cards)? Justin Piszcz
2008-05-10 17:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-10 22:28 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-05-11 7:39 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
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2008-05-10 18:24 David Lethe
2008-05-10 14:47 David Lethe
2008-05-10 9:23 Justin Piszcz
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