Hi,
I couldn't find this kind of answer when I was looking for it before, so now that I have a RAID at home I thought I'd get the performance numbers and post them for others to see.
I used the free version of HD Tune ( to get these numbers, so unfortunately it only tests Read speed, not Write speed, but hey, it's better than nothing.
The system I used is as follows:
Motherboard: ASUS P5K3 Deluxe
CPU: Intel Quad Core 2.4GHz Q6600
RAM: OCZ Gold DDR3 2 x 1GB DDR3-1333
Hard Drives: 3 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 SATA 500GB w/32MB cache
Video: ASUS nVidia 8600GT (540MHz) 512MB DDR3 (1.4GHz)
Here are the performance numbers on Win 2008 server for a single HD, 2 HD's in RAID 1, and 3 HD's in RAID 0 & 5:
I couldn't find this kind of answer when I was looking for it before, so now that I have a RAID at home I thought I'd get the performance numbers and post them for others to see.
I used the free version of HD Tune ( to get these numbers, so unfortunately it only tests Read speed, not Write speed, but hey, it's better than nothing.
The system I used is as follows:
Motherboard: ASUS P5K3 Deluxe
CPU: Intel Quad Core 2.4GHz Q6600
RAM: OCZ Gold DDR3 2 x 1GB DDR3-1333
Hard Drives: 3 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 SATA 500GB w/32MB cache
Video: ASUS nVidia 8600GT (540MHz) 512MB DDR3 (1.4GHz)
Here are the performance numbers on Win 2008 server for a single HD, 2 HD's in RAID 1, and 3 HD's in RAID 0 & 5:
Code:
RAID | HD Write | Vol Write | Min | Max | Average | Access | Burst Rate | CPU
Level: | Cache: | Cache: | (MB/s): | (MB/s): | (MB/s): | Time (ms): | (MB/s): | Usage:
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None | No | No | 50.0 | 104.9 | 85.1 | 12.2 | 65.0 | 3.0%
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0 | No | No | 78.5 | 106.5 | 98.9 | 9.5 | 65.2 | 5.4%
0 | No | Yes | 208.9 | 297.4 | 260.7 | 9.4 | 1028.9 | 9.6%
0 | Yes | No | 74.4 | 106.3 | 99.6 | 9.5 | 65.5 | 5.4%
0 | Yes | Yes | 208.6 | 296.3 | 262.8 | 9.5 | 1232.9 | 9.8%
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1 | No | No | 46.7 | 105.7 | 76.8 | 12.5 | 64.3 | 3.3%
1 | No | Yes | 38.5 | 99.6 | 64.4 | 12.2 | 800.4 | 3.5%
1 | Yes | No | 51.5 | 106.4 | 71.3 | 12.1 | 64.3 | 3.3%
1 | Yes | Yes | 39.1 | 91.4 | 64.7 | 12.2 | 1009.6 | 3.9%
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5 | No | No | 43.4 | 60.8 | 57.6 | 10.7 | 65.0 | 4.1%
5 | No | Yes | 78.0 | 171.2 | 131.5 | 10.8 | 1206.9 | 6.6%
5 | Yes | No | 44.9 | 60.4 | 57.3 | 10.8 | 65.5 | 4.2%
5 | Yes | Yes | 78.6 | 170.8 | 130.2 | 10.8 | 1129.0 | 6.1%
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