RAID Controllers Benchmark Overview

Raid Controller Benchmarks:

See below the results over different RAID Controllers.
The results are sorted by FSYNC/SECOND.
The highest score will be on top. 

System Specs are at the bottom of the page.




Average results over 4 runs with pveperf :

Raid Controller                                             Firmware                Buffered Reads / Average Seek Time / FSYNC/SECOND

Intel RS2BL040           (4port / 512MB)         12.7.0-0007           261.65 MB/sec  /        6.74 ms          /      3466.87
Intel SRCSATAWB       (8port / 128MB)          11.0.1-0057          258,51 MB/sec  /        7.03 ms          /      2814,18 

 


System Configuration:
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Intel SC5650UP
1x Intel S3420GPLX                                               /    Firmware:
                                                                                 BIOS     : 51
                                                                                 ME        : 6.0.30.1199
                                                                                 BMC      : 25
                                                                                 FRUSDR : 22
1x Intel Xeon X3470 2.93Ghz
2x 8GB DDR3 ECC KVR1333D3E9S/8G  1333MHz
1x Samsung SH-224 DVD +/- RW 
2x Hipro HP-4001E0 400W Power Supply Unit

4x Western Digital WD2503ABYX 250GB 7.200RPM 64MB Drive Cache


RAID Configuration:

VD01: RAID10    /   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:           Always Write back

Proxmox Configuration:

Proxmox VE 3.2    

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