Re: Sudden File System Corruption

Stan Hoeppner
2013-12-09T00:58:23Z

On 12/8/2013 9:03 AM, Emmanuel Florac wrote:
> Le Sat, 07 Dec 2013 23:22:07 -0600 vous écriviez:
>
>>> Thanks for the great advice, I think you are on to something
>>> there. I will
>>
>> You're welcome. Full disclosure: I should have mentioned that I
>> haven't used CacheCade yet myself. My statements WRT performance are
>> based on available literature and understanding of the technology.
>
> I didn't test thoroughly cachecade though I have a license code
> somewhere, however I've used the equivalent Adaptec feature and one SSD
> roughly double the IOPS of a RAID-6 array of 15k RPM SAS drives from
> about 4200 IOPS to 7500 IOPS.

Emmanuel do you recall which SSD you used here? 7500 IOPS is very low
by today's standards. What I'm wondering is if you had an older low
IOPS SSD, or, a modern high IOPS rated SSD that performed way below its
specs in this application.

The Samsung 840 Pro I recommended is rated at 90K 4K write IOPS and
actually hits that mark in IOmeter testing at a queue depth of 7 and
greater:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/840-pro-ssd-toggle-mode-2,3302-3.html

Its processor is a 3 core ARM Cortex R4 so it should excel in this RAID
cache application, which will likely have gobs of concurrency, and thus
a high queue depth.

Found a review of CacheCade 2.0. Their testing shows near actual SSD
throughput. The Micron P300 has 44K/16K read/write IOPS and their
testing hits 30K. So you should be able to hit close to ~90K read/write
IOPS with the Samsung 840s.

http://www.storagereview.com/lsi_megaraid_cachecade_pro_20_review

--
Stan