Running some tests using IOMeter (preferred the GUI to this one over SQLIOsim) and using some of the predefined options here's the results:
ON a 12-disk, RAID 5, 1 hot-swappable spare, this uses 1 worker, 40,000,000 sectors (20GB file)
MAX IOPS - uses 4KB transfer request size, 100% reads, 100% sequential dist.:
TOT IO/sec: 121,432
Total MB/sec: 479
Average IO Response Time: 0.13
MAX IO Response 1.85
CPU: 26.5
MAX IOPS - uses 4KB transfer request size, 100% reads, 100% sequential dist.:
TOT IO/sec: 58,294
Total MB/sec: 227
Average IO Response Time: 0.27
MAX IO Response 86.9
CPU: 12.1
MAXIOPS with 90% read, 10% write ratio - uses 4KB transfer request size, 90% reads, 10% sequential dist.:
TOT IO/sec: 7000
Total MB/sec: 90
Average IO Response Time: 2.28
MAX IO Response 37.2
CPU: 27.6
I don't really know if this is good or not, when i ran it against on of the other RAID 10 arrays the numbers were much slower...so i assume this is good - Is this considered ok?
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