RAID Performance w/ four Patriot Warp 2 SSDs - Up to 660MB/s

jmke · 19th January 2009, 17:12

We are back on the subject of Solid State Disk drives again and this time you're in for a real treat! This will be an adventure into extreme high-end storage with massive amounts of performance on tap. We managed to convince our contacts over at Patriot Memory to send us on over a grand total of four of their impressive Warp 2 SSDs.

What we are aiming to achieve in this article, besides showing off incredibly powerful RAID 0 performance, is to give consumers an idea of the level of read and write performance they can expect when running SSDs in various RAID levels. We covered them all - count them... 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 and single drive for good measure. We even tested with write caching enabled in RAID 0."

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/17...b_s/index.html

Kougar · 19th January 2009, 23:55

Again, only HD Tune tests... not good. Some ATTO or other tests to check on Jmciron controller's impact on performance would have been good.

thorgal · 20th January 2009, 13:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kougar

Again, only HD Tune tests... not good. Some ATTO or other tests to check on Jmciron controller's impact on performance would have been good.

Agreed, but I wouldn't worry too much about the ssd controller, as it's (lack of) performance is completely "flattened" by the onboard cache from the RAID controller.

Kougar · 20th January 2009, 20:47

Are you sure of that? The problem was at the firmware/controller level regardless of cache on the SSD. I just am not sure that a RAID controller could fully or mostly mitigate it.

Was some interesting tidbits on the issue in the W7 performance metric article. http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/200...nce-index.aspx

19th January 2009, 17:12	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 78,420	RAID Performance w/ four Patriot Warp 2 SSDs - Up to 660MB/s We are back on the subject of Solid State Disk drives again and this time you're in for a real treat! This will be an adventure into extreme high-end storage with massive amounts of performance on tap. We managed to convince our contacts over at Patriot Memory to send us on over a grand total of four of their impressive Warp 2 SSDs. What we are aiming to achieve in this article, besides showing off incredibly powerful RAID 0 performance, is to give consumers an idea of the level of read and write performance they can expect when running SSDs in various RAID levels. We covered them all - count them... 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 and single drive for good measure. We even tested with write caching enabled in RAID 0." http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/17...b_s/index.html __________________

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19th January 2009, 23:55	#2
Kougar Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 1,639	Again, only HD Tune tests... not good. Some ATTO or other tests to check on Jmciron controller's impact on performance would have been good.

20th January 2009, 20:47	#4
Kougar Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 1,639	Are you sure of that? The problem was at the firmware/controller level regardless of cache on the SSD. I just am not sure that a RAID controller could fully or mostly mitigate it. Was some interesting tidbits on the issue in the W7 performance metric article. http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/200...nce-index.aspx