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A.1. <strong>Data</strong> Storage 264<br />

Description<br />

CPU Dual Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz<br />

Memory<br />

512MB<br />

Motherboard<br />

Supermicro P4DP8-G2<br />

Front-side bus speed<br />

400Mhz<br />

PCI Word Size<br />

64 bit<br />

PCI Speed<br />

66/100/133Mhz<br />

OS Redhat Linux 7.2<br />

Table A.1: Hardware <strong>and</strong> software configuration of PCs used for RAID performance<br />

tests.<br />

Controller<br />

Raid Controller Type PCI Interface Driver Version<br />

ICP GDT8546RZ SATA 64bit 33/66Mhz 2.03<br />

3Ware 7505-8 ATA 64bit 33Mhz 1.02.00.031<br />

3Ware 7506-8 ATA 64bit 66Mhz 1.02.00.031<br />

3Ware 7506-8 SATA 64bit 66Mhz 1.02.00.031<br />

Table A.2: RAID Controllers under investigation.<br />

Controller<br />

Spindle<br />

Manufacturer Type Size (Gb) Speed (rpm) Cache Size<br />

Maxtor ATA 160 7500 8MB<br />

Maxtor SATA 160 7500 8MB<br />

Table A.3: Hard disk models used in RAID tests.<br />

Linux VFS (Virtual File System) fetches the next block of a file from memory.<br />

For the retrieval of data stored on disk in a uniform linear fashion<br />

(such as a large file) transfer rates can be increased with larger values of<br />

vm.max-readahead. However, increasing the value of vm.max-readahead<br />

may result in excess <strong>and</strong> often unnecessary memory usage. Conversely, lowering<br />

this value will result in a decrease in memory usage at the cost of<br />

reduced performance.

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