From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 26 23:50:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F99937B401 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 23:50:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from despammed.com (despammed.com [66.244.64.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE8BA43F85 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 23:50:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsadmin@despammed.com) Received: by despammed.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id BAA17272 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 May 2003 01:50:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 01:50:01 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200305270650.BAA17272@despammed.com> From: denisz@despammed.com To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailer: despammed.com Subject: comparison between DELL 2650 and HPQ ML 380 G3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 06:50:04 -0000 Dear all, currently we're investigating HPQ ML380G3 and Dell2650 to determine which one runs FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE better. One of interesting thing is the performance of the disk subsystem (PERC/3Di on DELL and Smart Array 5i on HPQ). The PERC/3Di using aac driver, while Smart Array 5i using ciss driver. Both system configured using RAID-5. On rawio bencmarking performed, both system shows comparable result with some advantage on Smart Array system. However when postmark benchmark performed, the PERC/3Di wins almost 2.5 times faster than Smart Array. I wonder if any of you also performed some benchmarking on any of those brands mentioned above could share opinions/advise. Or is there a better benchmarking tools to compare those systems ? Inputs/advise are very welcomed. Thanks, -denisz-