June 18, 2013

Post: Fast storage: 8 SSD Intel X-25M 80GB benchmarks

….percona.com/docs/wiki/benchmark:ssd:start, in summary table, randwr rows) 3. For cards connected in hardware raids, DEADLINE performs much worse… can get pretty decent results from SSD (230MB/sec on 4+ threads) – Cards connected in hardware raid is doing much better – DEADLINE outperforms…

Post: Intel SSD 910 vs HDD RAID in tpcc-mysql benchmark

…-2012 Benchmark goal: Test Intel SSD 910 under tpcc-mysql workload and compare with HDD RAID10 Hardware specification Server: Dell PowerEdge R710…: Hardware RAID10 over 8 disks, card: Perc H710, disks: Seagate ST9750420AS 750GB, 2.5″, 7200RPM, 16MB, SATA. Intel SSD 910 (software RAID over…

Post: Intel 320 SSD read performance

… C250 as base hardware, comparing in it: regular RAID10 over 8 SAS 2.5 disks single Intel 320 SSD directly attached to a HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 two Intel 320 SSD in hardware RAID0 mode, attached to… (less is better) threads Intel 320 SSD Intel 320 SSD strip RAID ratio RAID/Intel 320 ratio RAID/Intel 320 strip 1 0.53 0…

Comment: Death match! EBS versus SSD price, performance, and QoS

Hooking up SSD to traditional RAID controllers is a bad idea in all the testing I’ve done – even for RAID 0. Hardware RAID makes… SSD drives, and so the controllers impose waits which are not necessary. I’ve tested Adaptec, LSI, 3ware, Highpoint and software RAID. Software RAID performs best for all SSD that I’ve tested, even the lower-end…

Comment: FlashCache: tpcc workload with FusionIO card as cache

… (usually 4 drives, they tried hardware RAID, software RAID, RAID 1+0 and RAID 0), but in all cases the RAID controller or software couldn’t… for redundancy and stripping FIO cards, outside of a few hardware failures on the cards in early manufacturing, and the driver… get into the market? Yes. Are there applications where cheaper SSD solutions (IE, the mustang) will probably make better monetary sense…

Comment: Testing Samsung SSD SATA 256GB 830 - not all SSD created equal

… dividers are in the SBR which are trumped by the hardware add-on “fast path” keys. P410/256 with caching enabled… to be consistent that using cachecade-like solutions or non-raid ssd solutions results in far superior performance always. I’d like… a review of splicing your database files/indexes across ssd‘s without raid, with trim. PNY prevail elite embedded SF-2282 480gb…

Post: Intel SSD 910 in tpcc-mysql benchmark

… Benchmark goal: Test Intel SSD 910 under tpcc-mysql workload and compare with baseline Fusion-io ioDrive card Hardware specification Server: Dell….20GHz Memory: 192GB Storage: Fusion-io ioDrive 640GB, Intel SSD 910 (software RAID over 2x200GB devices) Filesystem: ext4 Software OS: Ubuntu 12…

Post: Intel 520 SSD in MySQL sysbench oltp benchmark

In my raw IO benchmark of Intel 520 SSD we saw that the drive does not provide uniform throughput … significantly, and single Intel 520 SSD gives much better throughput and response time comparing with traditional SAS RAID, and what is interesting… this card and use write cache from RAID controller (i.e. LSI-9260). Benchmarks specification, hardware, scripts and raw results are available…

Post: Should I buy a Fast SSD or more memory?

… 2G and 22G (to test performance compared to memory fit). Hardware was our Dell 900 (specs here). To start with, we… memory slots already filled?) Does your budget allow to install SSD cards? (You may still need more than one, since they… located in differently. Raw results: Buffer pool, GB FusionIO Intel SSD RAID 10 2 450.3 186.33 80.67 4 538…

Comment: Clustrix benchmarks under tpcc-mysql workload

…, and under-laying hardware has less effect. I did not look what is bottleneck with 7 Intel 320 SSD drives, as main… is worth to mention that it was software RAID0, not hardware RAID.