MD-3000 benchmark

[Prasana Iyengar]

Hi, Does it support RAID 50 ? I am guessing with striping on top of  
RAID 5 one could get better throughput on this device.

-prasana
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Prasana Iyengar
prasana at admob.com


On Sep 10, 2007, at 10:12 AM, u1_fd at dslr.net wrote:

> I wrote this up over the last few days:
>
> http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Benchmarking-the-MD3000- 
> powervault-under-linux-87401
>
> perhaps it is useful if you are considering these units or wondering
> about multi-path / high-avail
> on them.
>
> The most interesting discovery I made is that internally they  
> appear to
> have a maximum bus speed
> of 485mb/sec because their controller modules are actually the same as
> IBM DS4100s and
> old IBM product manuals provide the specs and details on their
> performance that Dell does not..
>
> I wonder how many customers know that this gear is just warmed over  
> IBM
> "mid-level" enterprise
> stuff from 2004 !
>
> -Justin
>
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