[OT] Useable BIOS RAID 1 on the cheap?

[Chris Benson]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 04:37:48PM +0000, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> 
> A friend of mine is a disc speed freak and he is reporting bonnie++
> throughputs of 110MB / sec read speeds (slightly less on write) on a
> three disk software raid 0 setup (AMD 64 3500, 1GB RAM, 3 Seagate
> Barracuda 300Mb SATA/150, NVidia chipset). 

Does this mean anything to anyone?

beta:/opt/tmp# bonnie -d /opt/tmp -u 65534:65534
Using uid:65534, gid:65534.
Writing with putc()...done
Writing intelligently...done
Rewriting...done
Reading with getc()...done
Reading intelligently...done
start 'em...done...done...done...
Create files in sequential order...done.
Stat files in sequential order...done.
Delete files in sequential order...done.
Create files in random order...done.
Stat files in random order...done.
Delete files in random order...done.
Version  1.03       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP
beta             2G 36079  94 59261  31 25349  13 24238  65 44377  15 354.4   1
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP /sec %CP
                 16 24771  99 +++++ +++ 20038  99 23481  99 +++++ +++ 17372  99
beta,2G,36079,94,59261,31,25349,13,24238,65,44377,15,354.4,1,16,24771,99,+++++,+++,20038,99,23481,99,+++++,+++,17372,99

/opt is 
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/system-opt
                      10485436     35228  10450208   1% /opt
-- an LVM volume on 
beta:/opt/tmp# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md0 : active raid1 hdc1[1] hda1[0]
      156288256 blocks [2/2] [UU]

The disks are Seagate 160GBs:
hda: ST3160023A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: ST3160023A, ATA DISK drive
hdd: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8161B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

The machine is a dual
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) MP
stepping        : 1
cpu MHz         : 2000.474
cache size      : 256 KB

with 1GB RAM ...

So is that good?  I don't really care because I ran on one disk for 6
days last week when hdc failed with a loose power cable ...
-- 
Chris Benson