Dell DAS MD1000 Benchmarks

Posted By Chris Stinson in Exchange Server,General,Hardware on March 24, 2008

Here are the Dell MD1000 Direct Attached Storage Benchmarks I had promised earlier. The performance is great. I’m trying to squeeze some more MB/s out of the read performance. I’ve also included performance / disk. Looks as though 4x and 8x disks in RAID10 have the best performance per disk. All the disks are 73 GB Seagate 15K SAS.

	Write (MB)	Write (MB)/disk	Rewrite (MB)	Rewrite (MB)/ disk	Read (MB)	Read (MB)/disk
2 x RAID1	35.0	17.5	25.0	12.5	99.9	50.0
4 x RAID10	94.2	23.5	66.7	16.7	252.7	63.2
6 x RAID10	100.0	16.7	72.1	12.0	295.5	49.3
8 x RAID10	166.0	20.7	100.4	12.6	434.7	54.3
10 x RAID10	164.3	16.4	97.5	9.8	404.5	40.4
12 x RAID10	186.2	15.5	104.9	8.7	425.5	35.5
14 x RAID10	195.7	14.0	105.7	7.6	450.2	32.2