Benchmarks of the RAID-6 Array with 3TB Hitachi Drives

Post date: Dec 31, 2011 2:10:26 PM

Hello,

The results are in; however I will first show the configuration of the array:

FYI parted 2.2+ aligns at 1MiB boundaries:

p34:~# parted /dev/sda

GNU Parted 2.3

Using /dev/sda

Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.

(parted) print

Model: LSI 9750-24i4e DISK (scsi)

Disk /dev/sda: 48.0TB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 1049kB 48.0TB 48.0TB xfs data

(parted) unit s

(parted) print

Model: LSI 9750-24i4e DISK (scsi)

Disk /dev/sda: 93749641216s

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 2048s 93749639167s 93749637120s xfs data

(parted) unit b

(parted) print

Model: LSI 9750-24i4e DISK (scsi)

Disk /dev/sda: 47999816302592B

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 1048576B 47999815254015B 47999814205440B xfs data

(parted) quit

p34:~#

And the results are shown below:

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