Tuesday, July 22, 2014

4 vs 8 Hard Drives performance showdown

What is the performance difference between 4 drives vs 8 drives.
We use 250GB Hard drives for this.

Lets put it to the test and see what the results are.


Average results over 4 runs with pveperf:

Number of HDD's                          CPU BOGOMIPS / REGEX/SECONDS / Buffered Reads / Average Seek Time / FSYNC/SECOND

4x WD2503ABYX 250GB                   100546.56     /     881431.50       / 264.73 MB/sec  /       6.41 ms          /      3080.16

8x WD2503ABYX 250GB                   100549.56      /    820746.50        / 746.70 MB/sec  /       6.04 ms          /     2829.63



Conclusion:

As you can see the buffered reads are almost 3x times higher with 8 disks then compared with 4 disks. Although FSYNC/SECOND went a bit down.

I would say put in more smaller harddrives then just a couple of big ones.
Bigger is not always better ;)


System Configuration:
(Click on product for more information)

Intel P4308CP4MHGC
1x Intel S2600CP                                                   /    Firmware:
                                                                                 BIOS     : 02.03.0003
                                                                                 ME        : 02.01.07.328
                                                                                 BMC      : 1.21.r6038
                                                                                 FRUSDR : 1.11

2x Intel Xeon E5-2620V2 2.10Ghz
2x 8GB DDR3 ECC REG M393B1G70QH0-CK0 1600MHz
1x Intel RMM4
1x Samsung SH-224 DVD +/- RW 
2x Intel DPS-750XB A 750W Power Supply Unit

1x Intel RMS25PB080 incl. Intel AXXRSBBU9           /    Firmware: 23.28.0-0010
4x Western Digital WD2503ABYX 250GB 7.200RPM 64MB Drive Cache

RAID Configuration:

VD01: RAID6    /   4x Western Digital WD2503ABYX
  • Capacity:      465.660 GB
  • Strip Size:     256 KB
  • Access:         RW
  • I/O:              Direct
  • Read:            Always read ahead
  • Disk Cache:   Disabled
  • Disable BGI:  Yes
  • Write:           Write back with BBU
VD01: RAID6    /   8x Western Digital WD2503ABYX
  • Capacity:      1.364 TB
  • Strip Size:     256 KB
  • Access:         RW
  • I/O:              Direct
  • Read:            Always read ahead
  • Disk Cache:   Disabled
  • Disable BGI:  Yes
  • Write:           Write back with BBU

Proxmox Configuration:

Proxmox VE 3.2    
  • Partition type:   ext4
  • Root Partition:   10GB
  • Swap Size:        20GB
  • All other settings default.

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