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A.1. <strong>Data</strong> Storage 268<br />

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Figure A.3: Performance for 3Ware ATA (RAID 5 with 4 Disks <strong>and</strong> 33Mhz PCI).<br />

Read Speed (Mbit/sec)<br />

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vm.max-readahead 31<br />

vm.max-readahead 63<br />

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vm.max-readahead 256<br />

vm.max-readahead 512<br />

vm.max-readahead 1200<br />

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(b) Write Performance<br />

Figure A.4: Performance for 3Ware ATA (RAID 5 with 4 Disks <strong>and</strong> 66Mhz PCI).<br />

for small values of vm.max-readahead. However, there was no observable<br />

increase in the read speed for higher settings of vm.max-readahead.<br />

However the overall read performance for both the 3Ware parallel cards<br />

is over 200Mbit/s faster than for the ICP card. The write speeds for the two<br />

3Ware cards are also very similar with the 66 MHz card having marginally<br />

better performance.<br />

On the other h<strong>and</strong>, the overall write performance of<br />

the 3Ware cards is significantly less than that of the ICP card, being over<br />

200Mbit/s slower.<br />

The particular ICP card under test had a maximum disk array size of 4

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