RAID sustained R/W computation

thrillkiss · Sep 8, 2004

Hi Guys,

Please help. Supposed we have 3 80GB HDD with say 20MB/s sustained rate (NOT the burst rate, w/c is normally higher). If we configure the above drive as RAID 0, the total capacity would yield to 240GB, however, how do we compute for the sustained rate of the RAID 0 setup? what are the limiter (if any). If such is the computation, how about other RAID levels?

thanks and have a brand new day.

crjdriver · Sep 8, 2004

First of all, I doubt that you can create a raid 0 with three disks. The way raid 0 works is that block 1 of the data is written to the first disk and block 2 of the data to the second disk; the 3rd block will go to disk 1. So I am not sure what good a third disk in raid 0 will do you.

You will basically double the read / write speed of the single disk. Using two 80 gig drives will give you an array of 160 gig with double the read / write speed. As an example I use a raid 0 array and get 82 to 84 meg p /s disk speed from the array. A single drive I have connected to the controller gets around 40 meg p /s.

If you want to setup raid 0, use two disks and have the third for backup / image files.

thrillkiss · Sep 9, 2004

Thanks crjdriver, appreciate it buddy. Thought for a while that 2 disk would be the minimum requirement for a RAID 0 setup. Thanks anyway. Noe thats the easy part, supposed I would configure 5 80GB HDD as RAID 5, how would I compute for the sustained rate of the said setup given the same sustained RW rate per drive (20MB)

thanks again

thrillkiss · Sep 9, 2004

Thanks crjdriver, appreciate it buddy. Thought for a while that 2 disk would be the minimum requirement for a RAID 0 setup. Thanks anyway. Noe thats the easy part, supposed I would configure 5 80GB HDD as RAID 5, how would I compute for the sustained rate of the said setup given the same sustained RW rate per drive (20MB)

thanks again

crjdriver said:

First of all, I doubt that you can create a raid 0 with three disks. The way raid 0 works is that block 1 of the data is written to the first disk and block 2 of the data to the second disk; the 3rd block will go to disk 1. So I am not sure what good a third disk in raid 0 will do you.

You will basically double the read / write speed of the single disk. Using two 80 gig drives will give you an array of 160 gig with double the read / write speed. As an example I use a raid 0 array and get 82 to 84 meg p /s disk speed from the array. A single drive I have connected to the controller gets around 40 meg p /s.

If you want to setup raid 0, use two disks and have the third for backup / image files.
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crjdriver · Sep 9, 2004

It should be double the single drive speed. As to any benchmark to use, I use SiSandra disk or file benchmark. There is a raid array that will let you use all three disks, however it does not give an increase in speed. It is a JBOD array; three drives in jbod would show as one drive with the sum of the capacity.

I think for what you want, two drives in raid 0 with a third for backups would give you the best performance.

thrillkiss · Sep 9, 2004

Thanks again crjdriver, I am planning to use solid state flash drives. They promises to give higher sustained rates compared to rotating drives, though it would cost me. On the otherhand, I need to have sustained R/W rate of 160MB/s. Any suggestions

thanks in advance.

regards

crjdriver said:

It should be double the single drive speed. As to any benchmark to use, I use SiSandra disk or file benchmark. There is a raid array that will let you use all three disks, however it does not give an increase in speed. It is a JBOD array; three drives in jbod would show as one drive with the sum of the capacity.

I think for what you want, two drives in raid 0 with a third for backups would give you the best performance.
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crjdriver · Sep 9, 2004

The only mechanical drive that comes close to that is scsi raid 0 using 15,000 rpm 8 meg cache drives. I think they are around 150 mps. A setup like that will be expensive.

thrillkiss · Sep 10, 2004

I have someone ask me, hope you can help me.
They are using dual Xeon Processor and 13GB RAM. They are planning to use 11.5GB as cache for the R/W. I was thinking of a RAID5 or RAID 7 setup with at least 12 to 24 150GB HDD. What do you think?

thanks again

crjdriver said:

The only mechanical drive that comes close to that is scsi raid 0 using 15,000 rpm 8 meg cache drives. I think they are around 150 mps. A setup like that will be expensive.
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crjdriver · Sep 10, 2004

I have only setup raid 0, 1, and 01. I really have almost no knowledge of raid 5 or 7.

thrillkiss · Sep 10, 2004

thanks buddy, i do apologize, hope i din't anoy you that much, i'm a little hype about this. Got some answers/ recommendations with microsoft developers and try to simulate those.
it was nice chatting with you

GODSPEED....

crjdriver said:

I have only setup raid 0, 1, and 01. I really have almost no knowledge of raid 5 or 7.
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