On 8/24/06, Bucky Jordan <bjordan@lumeta.com> wrote:
> Here's benchmarks of RAID5x4 vs RAID10x4 on a Dell Perc5/I with 300 GB
> 10k RPM SAS drives. I know these are bonnie 1.9 instead of the older
> version, but maybe it might still make for useful analysis of RAID5 vs.
> RAID10.
> ------ RAID5x4
i dont see the seeks here, am i missing something?
[raid 10 dd]
> 1024000000 bytes transferred in 45.565848 secs (22472971 bytes/sec)
ouch. this is a problem with the controller. it should be higher than
this but the raid 5 should edge it out regardless. try configuring
the hardware as a jbod and doing the raid 10 in software.
merlin