June 18, 2013

Post: Aligning IO on a hard disk RAID – the Theory

… the best use of the underlying storage, it also makes sure file starts in a proper position with respect to stripe size. The size… there’s no striping, with RAID0 number of bearing disks is actual number of disks (N), with RAID1+0 (RAID10) it’s… know if you should be using an offset, what stripe size and how many stripe elements. It’s easy to check if you…

Post: How multiple disks can benefit for single client workload ?

… of the different reason. If you’re using RAID10 – most commonly used RAID level for write intensive … This is a lot, but remember this was the best case. Typically you will not be able to … to deal with not even mentioning various seriolization, stripe sizes, cache policies, filesystem and OS issues …

Post: Aligning IO on a hard disk RAID – the Benchmarks

… Present BBU | 100% Charged, Temperature 34C, isSOHGood= VirtualDev Size RAID Level Disks SpnDpth Stripe Status Cache ========== ========= ========== ===== ======= ====== ======= ========= 0(no name) 1.088 TB… set during mounting but not during mkfs. This is your best option if you have a proper alignment in partition table… random writes – IO alignment on a 4-disk RAID10 with standard 64k stripe element size makes a significant difference. When I launched the…