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Date:      Fri, 23 Feb 1996 21:04:49 +0100
From:      se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser)
To:        Rashid  Karimov <rashid@rk.ios.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Disk perf. with different HDs/Adapt.
Message-ID:  <199602232004.AA07830@Sysiphos>
In-Reply-To: Rashid  Karimov <rashid@rk.ios.com> "Disk perf. with different HDs/Adapt." (Feb 23, 14:26)

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On Feb 23, 14:26, Rashid  Karimov wrote:
} Subject: Disk perf. with different HDs/Adapt.
} 		Hi there folx,
} 
} 
} 	Who are Today's Fastest ? :)
} 
} 
} 	I mean the combination of motherboard/SCSI HD/SCI adapter
} 	that delivers max perfomance ? max read/write speed etc ?
} 
} 
} 	I have different values here on ASUS 133/166 Mhz P5,
} 	150/200Mhz PPro machines( with mucho deprecated PCI set)
} 	and RAID Arrays.
} 
} 
} 	For example
} 	(command is: dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=/dev/null count=200 bs=64k)
} 
} 	P166/ASUS/Aha2940(not wide,Seagate):
} 	13107200 bytes transferred in 2 secs (6553600 bytes/sec)


If you report 'dd' numbers, then **please** add at least 'time' info ...
E.g.:

# time dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=/dev/null count=200 bs=64k
13107200 bytes transferred in 2 secs (6553600 bytes/sec)
        1.92 real         0.01 user         0.05 sys

# time dd if=/dev/rsd0c of=/dev/null count=800 bs=64k
52428800 bytes transferred in 8 secs (6553600 bytes/sec)
        7.53 real         0.00 user         0.24 sys

Those 1.92 seconds make for exactly 6826667 Bytes per second ...
And the 7.43 give some 6962656 Bytes/s.

(Yes, I know, the results aren't exact to more than 2 decimals 
due to the limited time resolution ...)

BTW: Mine is an ASUS SP3G motherboard (NCR53c810, Quantum Atlas 2GB), 
hardly a competition to your P5 or P6 :)

} 	P133(other stuff the same)
} 	52428800 bytes transferred in 8 secs (6553600 bytes/sec)
} 
} 	P6-200Mhz(the same, runs INND and ~130 readers + 2 feeds
} 	at the time of the test):
} 	13107200 bytes transferred in 3 secs (4369066 bytes/sec)
} 	real slow comparing to the "regular" PCI chip like one
} 	in P5 ASUSes
} 
} 	P5-166(Bustec Wide SCSI, Seagate 32250W, under BSDI) - 
} 	~8700000 bytes/sec

That's one of the famous dual-head SCSI drives ?
Will be beaten by the next generation of Fast-20 drives
from all major vendors (Seagate, Quantum, IBM) which use
MR head technology (net data rate of 12MB/s to 7MB/s).

} 	P6-200 ASUS( hate it!) with RAID array ( all in HW no
} 	special drivers reqd) - only 3Mb/sec ! 

Well, RAID doesn't seem the way to go, if you are looking
for top performance ... Were the drives synchronized and 
was a reasonable write buffer in the controller ?

How does CCD compare ?
It was quite good according to the last values I saw ...

Regards, STefan


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