more serious HDD tester: post IOmeter results

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12-02-2007, 06:57 AM
kiwi

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more serious HDD tester: post IOmeter results

It will take a few minutes to set this benchmark up but IOmeter is a much better way to test a hard drive performance than Hdtach etc... Post also what setup you have

Here is a quick guide how to set it up:

1. Download IOmeter
http://www.iometer.org/doc/downloads.html

2. You can try opening iometer.icf file (see attachement) or set it up manually
Set target and disk size (8GB)
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/2862/iosetup1qn8.jpg

3. Create a new test
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/7987/iosetup2yv7.jpg

Access specification will look like this:
http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/3550/iosetup3bl3.jpg

4. Last parameters
http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/9708/iosetup4pi7.jpg

Then simply click start tests (green flag). Run time will be 5min*4=20minutes

It will save results in CSV file. Next you want to open the file in Excel and format to something like this (raptor 150GB raid0):

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/1...ter3miniw2.jpg

Here is another result from Gigabyte iRAM (1GB though):

http://www.eoz.lv/attachment.php?att...1&d=1196259392
02-03-2008, 01:23 AM
KTE

That link doesn't work kiwi. ;)

Update it with something like this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/iometer/

I ran a test on my laptop, will post on it in a few minutes.
02-03-2008, 03:37 AM
kiwi

Works for me :confused:
Anyway seems that test is too complicated and nobody is posting results :D
02-03-2008, 04:44 AM
KTE

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It's working for me now, it wasn't before for over a day. :D

C2D T7500 2.2G / 80GB HD SATAI 5400RPM

Attachment 71727
02-04-2008, 03:34 AM
BGVirtual

4 150gb raptors in raid5

http://i32.tinypic.com/2rpelb9.png
02-16-2008, 07:40 AM
kiwi

BGVirtual:

That's really interesting. For small queue depth raid 5 is not good but for higher depth it gets better. Probably with more disks and higher depth it will be even better. That's why raid 5 is typically for servers and server applications :)
02-16-2008, 11:34 PM
freeloader

3x320gb Hitachi Deskstars in RAID 0.
02-17-2008, 12:40 PM
Gen

4x1 Seagate 500gb
Raid 0+1 ICH9R

http://aycu05.webshots.com/image/439...4593013_rs.jpg
03-09-2008, 04:09 AM
NapalmV5

4x WD6400AAKS @ 80GB @ highpoint 3510
http://aycu31.webshots.com/image/470...0353384_rs.jpg

4x WD740ADFD @ 80GB @ highpoint 3510
http://aycu11.webshots.com/image/461...9444131_rs.jpg
04-06-2008, 11:00 PM
AuDioFreaK39

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...terResults.png
05-28-2008, 06:57 PM
Mr.Guvernment

good info!
12-30-2008, 10:36 PM
Speederlander

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8x 300GB Velociraptor @120GB in RAID 60 (4 by 2 configuration) on Areca 1680ix.
12-30-2008, 11:49 PM
Speederlander

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8x 300GB Velociraptor @120GB in RAID 10 (4 by 2 configuration) on Areca 1680ix.
12-31-2008, 12:28 AM
Speederlander

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8x 300GB Velociraptor @120GB in RAID 0 on Areca 1680ix.
01-02-2009, 07:44 AM
Levish

Quote:

Originally Posted by kiwi

Works for me :confused:
Anyway seems that test is too complicated and nobody is posting results :D

the results are a little more useful than simple HD tach results imo
01-06-2009, 11:31 AM
Levish

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This is a older server with two independent arrays
01-06-2009, 01:29 PM
Levish

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newer c2q based server but with slow disks ORZ
01-06-2009, 02:13 PM
Levish

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And last one for the day
Dell R300 1U server RAID1 2x 147GB 15,000RPM SAS Drives (finally something yummy) running Win2k8
01-25-2009, 11:01 AM
Nizzen

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Areca 1680ix 2gb + 10 Seagate 15k.5 SAS @ raid-0
01-25-2009, 01:27 PM
rge

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Intel SSD X25m
01-28-2009, 10:33 AM
Serra

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Excepting the OP's I-RAM tests (which I can't really explain unless the 1GB size makes any difference), the ACARD ANS9010 in RAID-0 with itself on a PERC 6/i appear to pretty well dominate at this test:
01-28-2009, 08:30 PM
Speederlander

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Superspeed RAMDisk for all my application and game installs:
01-29-2009, 06:10 AM
Nizzen

Quote:

Originally Posted by Speederlander

Superspeed RAMDisk for all my application and game installs:

How mutch ram do YOU have :confused:

"All my application and game installs! :rolleyes:

You can't have many new games on the ramdisk, because new games are too big!

2 games, and the ramdisk i full. Doooh
01-29-2009, 06:21 AM
Speederlander

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nizzen

How mutch ram do YOU have :confused:

"All my application and game installs! :rolleyes:

Ram drive is 14GB. Soon to be 26GB when I go to 32GB system RAM next week.

Everything is instantaneous.
01-30-2009, 02:06 AM
over@locker886

Quote:

Originally Posted by Speederlander

Superspeed RAMDisk for all my application and game installs:

Very Impressive!:clap:

What system do you have exactly?
01-30-2009, 07:51 AM
Speederlander

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nizzen

How mutch ram do YOU have :confused:

"All my application and game installs! :rolleyes:

You can't have many new games on the ramdisk, because new games are too big!

2 games, and the ramdisk i full. Doooh

When I am done with a game I remove it. I don't play that many games and when I do, I finish it and remove it.

I only put applications that benefit from the speed-up on the ramdisk. I have visual studio, masm, etc. I don't waste space putting office and other unnecessary apps on it.

Anyway, I'm going to 32GB system memory (with 26GB ramdisk) for a reason. ;)
01-30-2009, 07:55 AM
Speederlander

Quote:

Originally Posted by over@locker886

Very Impressive!:clap:

What system do you have exactly?

Supermicro X7DWA-N, dual harpertowns, 16GB Kingston 800MHz FB-DIMM going to 32GB next week.
01-30-2009, 05:03 PM
One_Hertz

Quote:

Originally Posted by Speederlander

Superspeed RAMDisk for all my application and game installs:

My two X25-Es have 5.0k, 8.4k, 11.0k, 9.2k for ques of 1,2,4,8 respectively. Pretty close. If the friggin adaptec controller wasn't gimped they would do more :(
01-30-2009, 06:00 PM
Speederlander

Quote:

Originally Posted by One_Hertz

My two X25-Es have 5.0k, 8.4k, 11.0k, 9.2k for ques of 1,2,4,8 respectively. Pretty close. If the friggin adaptec controller wasn't gimped they would do more :(

At some point there are limits because it's fb-dimms. But you can't possibly have safe large ramdisks (i.e. >=12GB) w/o the full ecc protection. But hey, 57K iops does it for me.
01-30-2009, 06:19 PM
One_Hertz

Quote:

Originally Posted by Speederlander

At some point there are limits because it's fb-dimms. But you can't possibly have safe large ramdisks (i.e. >=12GB) w/o the full ecc protection. But hey, 57K iops does it for me.

mm I quoted the wrong post last time. Ramdisks FTW indeed, but I can't lose the CPU OC personally :(
01-30-2009, 06:33 PM
Speederlander

Quote:

Originally Posted by One_Hertz

mm I quoted the wrong post last time. Ramdisks FTW indeed, but I can't lose the CPU OC personally :(

Yeah, no real OC. But I BSEL'd my two harpertowns from 2.5GHz to 3GHz. Not too bad for an 8 core machine with 16GB RAM.
02-08-2009, 03:26 AM
over@locker886

Quote:

Originally Posted by Speederlander

Supermicro X7DWA-N, dual harpertowns, 16GB Kingston 800MHz FB-DIMM going to 32GB next week.

Great!:) I thinking about X58 + 12GB DDR3 system..4GB for OS and 8GB for Ramdisk.
02-11-2009, 08:00 AM
Levish

x58 will take 24GB of ram in the 6 socket system, you are limited to the slower stuff for double sided sticks though (which 4gb will almost certainly be). check through the manuals
02-11-2009, 08:21 AM
Bootup05

Testing on a Single 750GB Spinpoint....

How long does it take to prepare the drives. My drive is really fragmented. Is it sorting that out? :shrug:

It's been preparing for almost half an hour :down:
02-13-2009, 06:32 AM
Speederlander

Quote:

Originally Posted by Levish

x58 will take 24GB of ram in the 6 socket system, you are limited to the slower stuff for double sided sticks though (which 4gb will almost certainly be). check through the manuals

But that much RAM not ECC is not advised.
02-18-2009, 10:25 AM
Levish

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bootup05

Testing on a Single 750GB Spinpoint....

How long does it take to prepare the drives. My drive is really fragmented. Is it sorting that out? :shrug:

It's been preparing for almost half an hour :down:

Depends on the speed of the drive, if i remember correctly the posted test creates a 8GB file for use in 4k random write testing. 15-30 minutes isn't unreasonable.
02-19-2009, 07:38 AM
kiwi

Yea, SSDs and Ramdisk dominate here :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bootup05

Testing on a Single 750GB Spinpoint....

How long does it take to prepare the drives. My drive is really fragmented. Is it sorting that out? :shrug:

It's been preparing for almost half an hour :down:

Better defragment before test and ideally test it on a dedicated partition in the first say 50GB. That is where usually your OS and other application go and that part of the conventional disk is faster :)
02-19-2009, 08:45 AM
Griff805

2x X25-M RAID 0
ICH10R

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/111498/Pi...D0-IOMeter.jpg
03-05-2009, 12:17 PM
lowfat

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...icture1-12.jpg

1 X25-M w/ MFT.
03-05-2009, 10:08 PM
Jaivan

http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/9436/iometer.jpg
03-14-2009, 08:53 AM
Mads321

I want to run this app. and use the numbers for at review of some SSD's in a short whle, but I have absolutely no idea what all theese numbers are, and what they mean.

Anyone care to enlighten me on the subject, or at least point me in the right direction to understand theese numbers good enough to explain them to an audience?

Thank you very much in advance!
05-28-2009, 12:42 PM
Levish

4x 74GB 15kRPM Fujitsu SAS drives on Adaptec 5405 in RAID10
http://www.twilightstars.org/levish/sas.JPG
05-29-2009, 01:40 AM
Jurgen_vdp

These are my test results from withing a VMWare environment over an 1GB iscsi link and on the local drive. IOMeter was installed on a virtual machine running Windows Server 2003.

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/ecf3d45360.jpg

Think that are pretty neat results. VMServer is an HP DL380 G5, openfiler server is an HP DL380 G4 (3GB RAM, 6 x 15k U320 72GB).
05-29-2009, 05:29 AM
Levish

definitely neat results, the Openfiler thing is to the same disks as the 2nd result? Roughly how old are those SCSI disks?
05-31-2009, 12:23 AM
Jurgen_vdp

Quote:

Originally Posted by Levish

definitely neat results, the Openfiler thing is to the same disks as the 2nd result? Roughly how old are those SCSI disks?

No, I have a DL380G5 with local disks about 2 years old (6 x 72GB 15K 2,5" SAS on an Smart Array P400), the second test is on these drives. I installed ESX 3.5 on this server and use it for demo purposes. The virtual machine is on this server. I created a drive on the local storage and a second drive on the iscsi san (with openfiler).

For the first test I installed openfiler on a HP DL380G4!! (with 6 x 72GB U320 15k disks 3,5"). This is a 4 year old server. It is connected over a 1GB Broadcom NIC and a HP 2910 switch. The results are from a disk on the openfiler system via iscsi.
06-01-2009, 04:19 AM
Levish

very cool Jurgen
06-01-2009, 02:02 PM
Jurgen_vdp

Yeah, it works great actually. Getting some nice speeds on older hardware. Just takes some time to configure, but the VM's work at a very acceptable speed :) I also have a production SAN, but cannot benchmark it, as it is used 24/7 (Supermicro SAN, 24x300GB 15k SATA on an Areca with 4GB cache, connected with 4x10Gb to a vmware cluster). Early tests gave a transfer speed of almost 1GB/sec.
11-17-2009, 03:34 AM
philip j fry

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HP P800 controller 12 disks in raid10

The discs are 15K RPM's from HP.

some decimal , . errors but still readable.
11-17-2009, 08:46 PM
ping2low

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...I still have 3 open channels waiting for X25s...can't wait! :up:

HighPoint 4320 XP SP2 (4x)ST3750640AS - Barracuda 7200.10 750GB/ RAID 0 / 75GB partition
07-17-2010, 02:58 AM
Shogan

This is a massive thread revival, but just got my first SSD the other day (about time) and decided to see how it compared. Both results from the same system on SATA.

Corsair Reactor 60GB SSD

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/450727/Corsa...4k-iometer.jpg

Wester Digital 750GB 7200rpm HD

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/450727/WD-75...4k-iometer.jpg
10-01-2010, 07:59 PM
tet5uo

Well, since it's ressurected :P

Here's 6x X25-M on Areca 1222.

http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/...uo/IOMETER.png
10-01-2010, 08:07 PM
Computurd

jesus tet you need something bettter than a 1222! for those drives you need a 6gb/s controller that can handle that random IO. seventy percent, or more, of your performance is left on the table!!
what is your max 4k random?
10-01-2010, 08:18 PM
tet5uo

Heh I know its totally limiting them.
This card originally was used for my home server but I wanted to see if it was better than the ICH10 for this SSD array.
Now it's making me think of possibly just springing for a shiny new raid card, after all, I've already spent enough on these SSD's... (heh started with 2 a year ago and have 6 now, they keep dropping the prices!)
Though the 1222 was keeping up till the 4th drive or so, then it started to plateu.

What's a decent card that would be able to unleash these bad-boys?

The 1880IXL 8-port maybe?
10-03-2010, 05:57 PM
Computurd

9260-8i w/fastpath nothing is faster.
10-03-2010, 07:50 PM
tet5uo

Hey, that's not too bad a price either from what I've found.

My local shop where I get staff price due to a well-placed friend doesn't have em, though, they do have the areca I mentioned... I'll try it. If it's crap I'll return it and order the LSI on newegg.
10-04-2010, 08:45 AM
DragoonXX

is there any functional difference between the -8i and -4i that you know of?
10-06-2010, 04:21 PM
Computurd

the -8i can connect more devices without an expander. -8i is eight drives, -4i is four.
10-06-2010, 07:54 PM
DragoonXX

sorry...I should have been more specific...performance wise- is there any functional difference between the two
10-19-2010, 01:09 AM
tet5uo

Well, traded up to an 1880ixl, just the 8 port with 512mb cache.

Here's a little better.
http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/...uo/iobench.jpg
I wonder if mixing gen1 and gen2 x25-m's is harming this much.
10-21-2010, 12:34 AM
trans am

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i have no idea what I saved here but here it is

this is 3 x 50gb vertex2 in raid0 on a 9260 w fastpast on the 4x slot
04-21-2011, 01:22 PM
EnHoE007

4X OCZ Vertex 3 @ LSI 9260 with Fastpath

http://www.enisjoldic.com/OCZ/IO.jpg

Hmm, the CPU util. is a littlebit high?!

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