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A.1. <strong>Data</strong> Storage 270<br />

Read Speed (Mbit/sec)<br />

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3Ware-ATA 8-Disks 33Mhz<br />

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3Ware-SATA 4-Disks 66Mhz<br />

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ICP-SATA 4-Disks 33Mhz<br />

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(a) Read Performance<br />

(b) Write Performance<br />

Figure A.6: Performance of Various Controllers in RAID-5 Configuration.<br />

achieved by the 3Ware-SATA card mounted with 8 disks, closely followed by<br />

the 3Ware parallel ATA running at 66 MHz with 8 disks <strong>and</strong> then the 3Ware<br />

parallel ATA running at 33 MHz. The 3Ware controllers perform less well<br />

when running with only 4 disks, each reading at approximately 1050Mbit/s.<br />

The read performance the ICP cards in RAID-5 were not as high as<br />

expected. When running in 66 MHz mode typical write speeds were approximately<br />

800Mbit/s, whilst the 33 MHz mode only read at around 700Mbit/s.<br />

The greatest overall write speeds were achieved by the 3Ware-ATA 66 MHz<br />

card mounted with 8 disks. The 3Ware-SATA, 3Ware-ATA 33 MHz <strong>and</strong> ICP<br />

66 MHz controllers performance was approximately equal. However the ICP<br />

cards only ran with 4 disks. Out of all the 4 disk array tests the ICP 66 MHz<br />

controller achieved by far the greatest write speeds.<br />

Figure A.7 shows a comparison of the maximum (vm.max-readahead<br />

1200) read <strong>and</strong> write speeds achieved for the various controllers <strong>and</strong> RAID-<br />

0 configurations. Again, the 3Ware cards show better read performance<br />

than that of the ICP cards <strong>and</strong> are comparable to that of the RAID-5 performances.<br />

However the read speeds are approximately 50 to 100Mbit/sec<br />

faster in RAID-0 over RAID-5 configurations. This is expected as the read-

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