[ale] Raid perf?

[Greg Freemyer]

All,

If anyone cares I found this Dell doc:

http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pvaul/en/PERC6_PerfWP_WMD1120.pdf

Per it, Raid 6 is in theory 3 times less efficient than Raid 10 on writes.

So to maintain the same write performance as my 4-disk Raid 10 I would
need a 12-disk Raid 6.

That is worse than I realized, but feasible for my needs.  (I think
250GB drives are down to $60 or so.  Thus 12 is only $700.  Obviously
I need the controller card too.  Haven't priced that yet.  I do have
big chassis that can hold the drives.)

Time for me to do a better job of characterizing my app to see what
percentage the i/o's are reads vs. writes.

Greg

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I have a Raid 10 (4x500GB) under Fedora using software raid that I
> want to replace with a Raid 6 (6x1TB).
>
> Does anyone know a website that will help me understand what the
> impact will be from a write perspective?  Assuming random DB style
> writes, not sequential.
>
> I'm curious about both theoretical and real world  (3ware or linux
> software raid) performance numbers.
>
> Thanks
> Greg
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