800GB+ transfer rate...!!

adam1v · 1 Mar 2009 at 22:00

Didnt believe it myself but:

20x1000GB seagate 7200.11 drives in raid6 on an areca ARC-1280ML Controller.

Source

Just thought id mention it.

Greenlizard0 · 1 Mar 2009 at 22:02

Schnippzle · 1 Mar 2009 at 22:03

a lot of people on that site claim that the results are incorrect, but if they are right then they are "fairly" impressive

adam1v · 1 Mar 2009 at 22:06

Greenlizard0 said:
MB..

woops lol, yes, MB.

I dont think it will be far off that.

RaiderX · 1 Mar 2009 at 22:08

it is 20 drives in raid so it will be fast, a single drive can do over 100mbps, also if you look on google for this drive, this is about normal performance for that card

Talrinys · 2 Mar 2009 at 09:28

What is the point though?

Cyber-Mav · 2 Mar 2009 at 13:42

seagate drives ehh, hope that array is backed up.

drak3 · 2 Mar 2009 at 14:04

No point, if you consider that 4 SSDs can match the performance. Maybe they tested the card/show off.

Monkeynut · 2 Mar 2009 at 16:06

I hope they have backups with 7200.11s in there, they'll need it.

Serial45 · 2 Mar 2009 at 16:33

Nice speed, but not a lot you would neeed that for except server hosting or something similar.

PiKe · 3 Mar 2009 at 00:43

Monkeynut said:
I hope they have backups with 7200.11s in there, they'll need it.

Raid 6 is striping with parity and so can tolerate 1 drive failure.

yashiro · 3 Mar 2009 at 00:55

drunkenmaster · 3 Mar 2009 at 01:08

drak3 said:
No point, if you consider that 4 SSDs can match the performance. Maybe they tested the card/show off.

no they couldn't 4x the £500 intels could easily do that speed but capacity vs cost, you would need 30 ssd's to cover EACH 1tb seagate drive, and they'd still run at 800mb's because thats what the controller card is limited to not what the drives are limited to. A samsung mlc drive cheaper with more capacity also doesn't do 250mb's reads so you'd need 6/7 just for the read speed, and still you'd have the capacity cost issue.

Likewise you wouldn't need 20 seagates to actually obtain that speed, from max speed you'd only need the 8 drives, to stay at 800mb's even at the drives minimum speed, 2-3 extra would do at most.

Now, what they need next is a board with two huge pci-e slots, 2 raid controller cards, run 10 drives on each card, and have someone make some software to raid together the two cards, so you can write at 1600mb/s sustained, that I'd like to see. you'd have a beast of a video editing machine there.

LeJimster · 3 Mar 2009 at 01:08

drak3 said:
No point, if you consider that 4 SSDs can match the performance. Maybe they tested the card/show off.

I was thinking that too.. Also When the Vertex2 comes out later this year, 2 of those in RAID-0 will top 1Gb/sec bandwith.

Talrinys · 3 Mar 2009 at 07:24

drak3 said:
No point, if you consider that 4 SSDs can match the performance. Maybe they tested the card/show off.

Yep exactly, and the access time will still be terrible, no real point.