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Date:      Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:15:31 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Stefan Lambrev <stefan.lambrev@moneybookers.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Very slow HP 8 Internal Port SAS HBA with RAID 0, 1 on Hot Plug SAS/SATA Models (LSI SAS1068 - mpt)
Message-ID:  <20071018091531.GA8737@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 12:09:18PM +0300, Stefan Lambrev wrote:
> May be I have wrong impression that mirror should increase read speed 
> almost twice compared to
> single disk, but I forget that bonnie++ was run as single thread.
> May be if I start it with concurrency=2 then I'll see the real performance 
> of the mirror ?
> Or should I move to the thread to performance@  :)

The easiest way for me to describe it would be to refer you to the
Wikipedia article.  See the section "Other benefits of mirroring":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_mirror

Generally speaking, RAID 1 sequential read across 2 disks should be
slightly higher than the same disk in a JBOD configuration -- keyword
is "slightly".  RAID 0 (striping) is what gives you the immense
improvement, but I'm sure you know how risky RAID 0 is...

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                    jdc at parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                           http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                      Mountain View, CA, USA |
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