Re: Wanted: RAID Benchmarks
Date: 29 Dec 1994 03:44:36 GMT
Message-ID: <3dtbb4$p08_at_deep.rsoft.bc.ca>
Gary M. Watson writes:
>The RAID Advisory Board (HP is a member) has commissioned Peer Protocols
>to write a benchmarking suite for RAID arrays, as well as a test suite.
Uh, I don't get it. A RAID is a disk, right, only faster and more robust, right? Do I care what it is inside? There are a variety of pretty good I/O benchmarks out there, including <blush> my own Bonnie, IOZONE, and the big one from Patterson et al that everyone says is the bee's knees. These things all try to measure real-world things like the throughput of Unix filesystems. Which kinda what I think you'd run on a RAID, most times. Unless of course you're doing private-partition work like Oracle/Sybase etc., in which case you'd better try it out with Oracle/Sybase/etc.
Or is this RAB stuff just a marketing exercise?
Or am I missing something obvious?
Cheers, Tim Bray, Open Text Corporation (tbray_at_opentext.com) Received on Thu Dec 29 1994 - 04:44:36 CET