[dba-Tech] JC: The Disks you bought

John W. Colby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Tue Sep 14 23:51:08 CDT 2004


Yep, it does indeed.  Notice it does use significant cpu time though.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 12:43 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] JC: The Disks you bought


On 14 Sep 2004 at 23:19, John W. Colby wrote:

> HD Tune: NVIDIA  STRIPE   379.84G Benchmark
> This is a pair of 200g disks running striped Raid0
> 
> Transfer Rate Minimum : 76.4 MB/sec
> Transfer Rate Maximum : 96.1 MB/sec
> Transfer Rate Average : 87.1 MB/sec
> Access Time           : 13.8 ms
> Burst Rate            : 100.9 MB/sec
> CPU Usage             : 9.7%
> 

That one certainly shows the benefit of striping for disk intensive tasks!

-- 
Stuart


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