So, I did an interesting experiment the other day... and I thought I would share...
Ive been after a home SAN for quite a while and have seen that even the cheap-ish ones have rubbish performance..
I.e an £8000 thecus or a £6000 ReadyNas will still only push through about 130-150MB/s.
I knocked up an openfiler installation, on a cheap HP server with a RAID card, with 4 velociraptors in RAID5, I was getting transfers of up to 170MB/s sustained and around 230-240MB/s for large 6 and 12GB files.
I couldnt believe it. Even the £31,000 Dells we have at work are only throughputting say 470MB/s.
Anyone else got any SAN throughput figures? The performance really took my by surprise, and next up I think I will start bonding NICS to increase the peformance further.
Impressed to say the least!
Its just a shame Openfiler doesnt have a nice interface and performance stats like the Equallogic kit.
Ive been after a home SAN for quite a while and have seen that even the cheap-ish ones have rubbish performance..
I.e an £8000 thecus or a £6000 ReadyNas will still only push through about 130-150MB/s.
I knocked up an openfiler installation, on a cheap HP server with a RAID card, with 4 velociraptors in RAID5, I was getting transfers of up to 170MB/s sustained and around 230-240MB/s for large 6 and 12GB files.
I couldnt believe it. Even the £31,000 Dells we have at work are only throughputting say 470MB/s.
Anyone else got any SAN throughput figures? The performance really took my by surprise, and next up I think I will start bonding NICS to increase the peformance further.
Impressed to say the least!
Its just a shame Openfiler doesnt have a nice interface and performance stats like the Equallogic kit.