• 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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