IOMeter v2006.07.27 – IOps
Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems. It was originally developed by the Intel Corporation and announced at the Intel Developers Forum (IDF) on February 17, 1998 – since then it got wide spread within the industry.
Meanwhile Intel has discontinued to work on Iometer and it was given to the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL). In November 2001, a project was registered at SourceForge.net and an initial drop was provided. Since the relaunch in February 2003, the project is driven by an international group of individuals who are continuesly improving, porting and extend the product.
Light desktop usage sees QD figures between 1 and 4. Heavy / power user loads run at 8 and higher. Most SSD's are not capable of effectively handling anything higher than QD=32, which explains the plateaus. Regarding why we use this test as opposed to single-tasker tests like 4KB random reads or 4KB random writes, well, computers are just not single taskers. Writes take place at the same time as reads. We call this mixed-mode testing, and while a given SSD comes with side-of-box specs that boast what it can do while being a uni-tasker, the tests above tend to paint a very different picture.
Here we see the RE performs well, but is outpaced slightly by the RE and Black, both running at the same RPM. The increase in platter density doesn't help overcome the marginally longer seeks of the new RE. Each seek stacks up, becoming amplified slightly as the test progresses and more IO's are stacked up on the drive logic.
It’s RAID edition review
It’s RAID edition review without RAID benchmarks, right? Did I miss something or maybe you are not provided enough drives for RAID testing?
All of these drive tend to
All of these drive tend to scale similarly when in a RAID, depending more on the RAID controller than the drive itself. WD had a very limited number of samples for the new RE.
Me gusta! :3
Me gusta! :3
To answer the first fellow’s
To answer the first fellow’s question. That is simply the name of the drive not what the review entails. RE is short for Raid Edition.
I have always wanted a
I have always wanted a SSD….Now i want 4 terabyte of hard drive space….
I am curious, do you think
I am curious, do you think the 2TB and 3TB would perform the same as the 4TB version? Will the lower amount of platters and heads cost some performance to the lower capactiy drives?
What I also wonder about is the new line of specific SAS models. Aou can plug a SATA drive in a SAS controller without any problems, so why the specific SAS line?
Thanks!
You can plug a SAS device
You can plug a SAS device into a SATA controller but NOT a SATA device into a SAS controller.
You’re backwards on that :).
You're backwards on that :). Most SAS RAID controllers can handle SATA.
In fact, it’s exactly the
In fact, it’s exactly the other way around.