Stereodude
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:skepo: You mean you can't remote desktop in and fire up IOmeter? :scratch:
8 x 1.5TB + Perc 6i + RAID-6 = Faster Storage
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ddrueding
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I meant, I wasn't supposed to have enough time to start it. The missus and I are supposed to be driving to Shadowbrook for dinner before dancing...but she's still "not ready", even though I would have declared her "ready" before she started.
It's running now, along with MS Update, but they are on separate disks...
It's running now, along with MS Update, but they are on separate disks...
ddrueding
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Stereodude
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Wow, your writes are slow. Are you using Write Back or Write Through?
ddrueding
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Write Back. Something is wrong, I'm setting it up for a massive RAID-0 now.
ddrueding
Fixture
Time to call tech support I guess...this benchmark is repeatable.
ddrueding
Fixture
Gah...
Stereodude
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Nice... 
Stereodude
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Stereodude
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Here's my 7200RPM Samsung 750GB (3 x 250GB platter) x 2 RAID-1 array on a Perc 5/i in my Desktop.
ddrueding
Fixture
Hah! It's better at 0.5K
Stereodude
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I wasn't really intending to post that as a comparison. It's just the latest benchmark I got. I need to IOmeter the Seagate 1.5TB x 2 RAID-1 array I made today.
Stereodude
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Well this isn't what I was expecting. :bleh:
I'm going to run it again just to make sure.
Stereodude
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I ran it again, and basically got the same results.
Now I'm running a single drive "array" to see what happens.
Now I'm running a single drive "array" to see what happens.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I'm guessing you should see your read speeds drop by about 1/2 compared to the previous graph and your writes should stay about the same.
ddrueding, I'd really love to see that softRAID.
Stereodude
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I wouldn't... The card doesn't appear to speed up RAID-1 reads (see the results from my 750x2 RAID-1 array test).
Well, I'm only 2/3rds of the way through the IOmeter run on a single drive "array", but the single drive seems to be matching the RAID-1 performance. I will have to test the other single drive next. *sigh*
ddrueding
Fixture
I'll get it going for you today.
ddrueding
Fixture
?
Stereodude
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What raid level is that?
Stereodude
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Here's a single 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11 on the Perc 5/i:
That is not at all what I would expect. I'm testing the other right now and will test them on the ICH9R later today when I get home.
That is not at all what I would expect. I'm testing the other right now and will test them on the ICH9R later today when I get home.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Or not, now that I see that's a 1000 and not a 100...
Stereodude
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I'm not entirely sure what to think of it since ATTO is basically worthless.
Stereodude
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Drive #2:
So, they both deliver this quirky performance.
So, they both deliver this quirky performance.
Stereodude
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I think it's time for a new thread... The ICH9R gives very different results.
ddrueding
Fixture
I can't run IOMeter or HDTach on a windows softRAID. I was expecting better performance with a 10-drive RAID-0.
Stereodude
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You're up to 10 drives? I thought you were playing with 6 drives?
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
You did get somewhat better performance with the softRAID. Kinda.
With 10 drives, I kind of wonder if you've exceeded the capacity of your card's CPU. Maybe if you switch down to 4, 6, 8 drives, you'll find different results.
With 10 drives, I kind of wonder if you've exceeded the capacity of your card's CPU. Maybe if you switch down to 4, 6, 8 drives, you'll find different results.
ddrueding
Fixture
I had some spares lying around...
ddrueding
Fixture
You did get somewhat better performance with the softRAID. Kinda.
With 10 drives, I kind of wonder if you've exceeded the capacity of your card's CPU. Maybe if you switch down to 4, 6, 8 drives, you'll find different results.
That softRAID was with the drives in passthough mode, so the CPU of the fileserver should have handled it (a Q9550 with 8GB of RAM, shouldn't be a problem).
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
OK, well that answers that.
Maybe you should try running off your Gigabyte X48 board's onboard ports next?
Maybe you should try running off your Gigabyte X48 board's onboard ports next?
ddrueding
Fixture
All those ports are already used with production drives, unfortunately. I could throw the 16-port 3Ware in there and see what it can do, but I can only do hardware work on that machine during the service window (it is our primary file server) and I'm booked for the next couple days.
Stereodude
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I discovered today that I had a single drive failure over 1 week ago on my Perc 6i RAID-6 array and I didn't know it because the default setting for the LSI MSM software for a warning (which a drive failure is considered) is to log it to the system log and the MSM log, but do nothing else (like a popup message). :tdown:
Oh, and the best part is you can change the settings, but they don't stick. :cursin:
Oh, and the best part is you can change the settings, but they don't stick. :cursin:
blakerwry
Storage? I am Storage!
The cards also have a speaker which should sound.
However, this appears to be disabled in the firmware on Dell PERCs. I'm not sure if it's disabled in software only or if the speaker is also physically removed. If it's a software only setting you could reflash to the LSI firmware.
Our LSI card make a shrill beep when a drive fails.
On a PERC card in a Dell server we get several orange flashing lights (one on the server front, one on the server back, one on the remote if we have it connected, and one on the drive carrier) as well as an email from the DRAC card. I suppose if we had the dell software installed we'd get some sort of popup.
However, this appears to be disabled in the firmware on Dell PERCs. I'm not sure if it's disabled in software only or if the speaker is also physically removed. If it's a software only setting you could reflash to the LSI firmware.
Our LSI card make a shrill beep when a drive fails.
On a PERC card in a Dell server we get several orange flashing lights (one on the server front, one on the server back, one on the remote if we have it connected, and one on the drive carrier) as well as an email from the DRAC card. I suppose if we had the dell software installed we'd get some sort of popup.
Stereodude
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I updated to the latest LSI MSM software. It still didn't consider a partially degraded array a worthy of a popup, but it actually saves the changes, so I bumped up the severity so a partially degraded array will generate a popup.
Stereodude
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I just noticed the typo in the thread title.
Really, I was using 1.5TB drives.
Really, I was using 1.5TB drives.
Stereodude
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Thanks!
Crap, are these the wrong cables?
http://www.wiredzone.com/itemdesc.asp/ic/10016794/model/CBL-0103L
Card is in and wired but I see no drives attached. For some reason I was thinking crossover was required because there is no backplane in use like is usually used with the PERC6i.
http://www.wiredzone.com/itemdesc.asp/ic/10016794/model/CBL-0103L
Card is in and wired but I see no drives attached. For some reason I was thinking crossover was required because there is no backplane in use like is usually used with the PERC6i.
Stereodude
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I think those are the wrong ones, but I'm not 100% sure.