SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

Steven Hartland killing at multiplay.co.uk
Wed Oct 19 16:32:21 PDT 2005


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <ray at redshift.com>
>  I have been thinking about getting one.  The guy I bought my 3ware 9500S-12
> card has one he's getting ready to benchmark.  I asked him to send me the
> details and I will pass them along here if I get them.  He did mention it
> supports SATA2 - whatever that provides.
> 
>  It's supposed to be twice as fast on the speed from what I saw on 3ware's site.
> 
>  Speaking of the 9500S-12, I just did some benchmarks using that machine and
> MySQL reads/writes.  As compared to a single SATA drive, the server was quite a
> bit faster when setup with the raid card and 4 10K Raptor drives.  I have the
> benchmarks here if anyone is interested.  I also just ordered 4 more 10K drives
> and I'm going to re-run everything in order to see how much of an improvement
> adding more drives has.  


I'd be interested to see the results of a fairly simple dd test. I
know its not the best test but would give me ball park figure
to go by as I have said results for a few other solutions.

    Steve 


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