From: Maurice Hilarius <maurice@harddata.com>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3ware 7500-12, bad write speed
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 22:23:38 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020925222027.03eb9710@mail.harddata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209252237100.23239-100000@uplift.swm.pp.se>
With regards to your message at 02:43 PM 9/25/02, Mikael Abrahamsson. Where
you stated:
>I have a 6 drive (120 gig drives) RAID5 using a 3ware 7500-12. I have the
>latest firmware (7.5.1), latest driver etc, everything looks up to spec. I
>get great read speeds (60-80 megabyte/s), but I get very erratic write
>speeds (average 15 megabyte/s or so).
Not so surprising.
>Anyone seen this and solved it? I currently get better write speeds to a
>single IBM 7200rpm 75 gig drive (~25-30 meg/s) than to the 6 drive RAID5
>volume (I use the 3ware card to create the volume, no software raid).
Yes, don't use the 3Ware BIOS RAID.
Run it in JBOD mode, and use Linux RAID.
Neil's md tools make this very nice, and if you go to the 3Ware site and
look in the downloads they have CLI tools to support hotswap and other
useful things.
On a set of 16 Maxtor 160GB disk, and a pair of 3Ware 8 port cards we
regularly get RAID5 writes (using a 4GB block/file size measured by
bonnie++) of over 75MB/sec and reads over 160MB/sec.
I do think you should be seeing better results with the card and it's
native BIOS RAID, but I still think that software Linux RAID is a lot
faster and more flexible.
With our best regards,
Maurice W. Hilarius Telephone: 01-780-456-9771
Hard Data Ltd. FAX: 01-780-456-9772
11060 - 166 Avenue mailto:maurice@harddata.com
Edmonton, AB, Canada http://www.harddata.com/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-26 4:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-25 20:43 3ware 7500-12, bad write speed Mikael Abrahamsson
2002-09-26 4:23 ` Maurice Hilarius [this message]
2002-09-26 6:43 ` Jason
2002-10-10 21:18 ` raid
2002-10-10 22:27 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2002-10-17 8:19 ` Is Read speed faster when 1 disk is failed on raid5 ? raid
2002-10-17 11:52 ` raid
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2002-09-25 21:12 3ware 7500-12, bad write speed Adam Radford
2002-09-26 5:25 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2002-09-26 6:04 ` dean gaudet
2002-09-26 17:50 Adam Radford
[not found] <A1964EDB64C8094DA12D2271C04B812672C771@tabby>
2002-10-11 22:03 ` raid
2002-10-11 22:05 ` raid
2002-10-14 18:08 Adam Radford
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