SuperMicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 (8 Port SATA controller) - pretty decent performance

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In case anyone was interested in the 8 port supermicro card:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815121009

I did some tests on it with software raid (mdadm). So far the results were very respectful (in my opinion). Here are the results of raw sequential read/writes in raid0, raid10, raid5 and raid6 and actually performed better in software raid than a 3ware 9650se. All testing was done on a core 2 quad CPU system with the controller in a PCI-X slot hooked up to 8 seagate 750 GB 7200 RPM ES.2 series hard-drives.

Here are my results:

Raid0:

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sabayonx86-64 / # dd bs=1M count=20000 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0
20000+0 records in
20000+0 records out
20971520000 bytes (21 GB) copied, 56.2338 s, 373 MB/s

03:31:09 AM  CPU   %user   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal   %idle    intr/s
03:31:14 AM  all    0.05    0.00   11.57   48.81    0.25    1.29    0.00   38.03   2551.00
03:31:19 AM  all    0.05    0.00    8.15   73.33    0.15    0.88    0.00   17.44   1942.80
03:31:24 AM  all    0.05    0.00   11.71   81.23    0.29    1.62    0.00    5.10   2421.80
03:31:29 AM  all    0.00    0.00   14.08   80.30    0.39    1.96    0.00    3.27   2679.60
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sabayonx86-64 ~ # dd bs=1M count=20000 if=/dev/md0 of=/dev/null
20000+0 records in
20000+0 records out
20971520000 bytes (21 GB) copied, 35.062 s, 598 MB/s

03:32:46 AM  CPU   %user   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal   %idle    intr/s
03:32:51 AM  all    0.05    0.00   14.89    6.16    0.72    1.43    0.00   76.75  11440.40
03:32:56 AM  all    0.05    0.00   15.31    5.62    0.77    1.58    0.00   76.67  11278.00
03:33:01 AM  all    0.05    0.00   15.30    4.89    0.92    1.79    0.00   77.06  10567.60
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sabayonx86-64 test # dd bs=1M count=20000 if=/dev/zero of=./file.bin
20000+0 records in
20000+0 records out
20971520000 bytes (21 GB) copied, 53.2778 s, 394 MB/s

03:34:08 AM  CPU   %user   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal   %idle    intr/s
03:34:13 AM  all    0.00    0.00   20.83   12.49    0.43    1.19    0.00   65.06   3217.60
03:34:18 AM  all    0.05    0.00   22.58   23.05    0.38    1.19    0.00   52.76   2989.20
03:34:23 AM  all    0.05    0.00   19.59   27.93    0.38    1.10    0.00   50.95   2893.80
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sabayonx86-64 test # dd bs=1M if=./file.bin of=/dev/null
20000+0 records in
20000+0 records out
20971520000 bytes (21 GB) copied, 32.9324 s, 637 MB/s

03:35:47 AM  CPU   %user   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal   %idle    intr/s
03:35:52 AM  all    0.05    0.00   14.71    6.74    1.19    1.14    0.00   76.17   9489.00
03:35:57 AM  all    0.05    0.00   13.58    7.03    0.95    1.09    0.00   77.30   8837.60
03:36:02 AM  all    0.05    0.00   13.17    7.51    1.00    1.00    0.00   77.28   8826.00
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Raid10:

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sabayonx86-64 / # dd bs=1M count=20000 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0
20000+0 records in
20000+0 records out
20971520000 bytes (21 GB) copied, 108.969 s, 192 MB/s

02:46:01 AM  CPU   %user   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal   %idle    intr/s
02:46:06 AM  all    0.05    0.00   10.96   34.13    0.20    1.09    0.00   53.57   2273.40
02:46:11 AM  all    0.05    0.00    7.19   32.57    0.20    0.89    0.00   59.10   2389.20
02:46:16 AM  all    0.00    0.00    5.18   35.04    0.10    0.60    0.00   59.07   2031.40
02:46:21 AM  all    0.10    0.00    8.01   31.88    0.20    0.99    0.00   58.82   2641.40
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sabayonx86-64 / # dd bs=1M count=20000 if=/dev/md0 of=/dev/null
20000+0 records in
20000+0 records out
20971520000 bytes (21 GB) copied, 68.0946 s, 308 MB/s

02:45:12 AM  CPU   %user   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal   %idle    intr/s
02:45:17 AM  all    0.05    0.00   11.65    6.97    0.83    2.05    0.00   78.46   9284.23
02:45:22 AM  all    0.05    0.00   11.87    6.06    0.93    2.39    0.00   78.70   9688.20
02:45:27 AM  all    0.05    0.00   11.63    6.86    0.83    2.19    0.00   78.44   9397.60
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sabayonx86-64 test # dd bs=1M count=20000 if=/dev/zero of=./file.bin
20000+0 records in
20000+0 records out
20971520000 bytes (21 GB) copied, 103.176 s, 203 MB/s

02:48:41 AM  CPU   %user   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal   %idle    intr/s
02:48:46 AM  all    0.05    0.00    6.06   44.69    0.05    0.15    0.00   49.00   2254.40
02:48:51 AM  all    0.00    0.00    4.36   53.47    0.05    0.15    0.00   41.97   2257.40
02:48:56 AM  all    0.05    0.00   10.75   38.45    0.15    0.24    0.00   50.37   2531.60
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sabayonx86-64 test # dd bs=1M if=file.bin of=/dev/null
20000+0 records in
20000+0 records out
20971520000 bytes (21 GB) copied, 62.8587 s, 334 MB/s

02:51:21 AM  CPU   %user   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal   %idle    intr/s
02:51:26 AM  all    0.05    0.00    7.44   11.47    0.24    0.29    0.00   80.51   3989.40
02:51:31 AM  all    0.05    0.00    8.37   10.93    0.29    0.48    0.00   79.87   4470.00
02:51:36 AM  all    0.05    0.00    6.76   10.94    0.34    0.34    0.00   81.57   3700.20
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Raid5:

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sabayonx86-64 / # dd bs=1M count=20000 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0
20000+0 records in
20000+0 records out
20971520000 bytes (21 GB) copied, 152.17 s, 138 MB/s

02:53:24 AM  CPU   %user   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal   %idle    intr/s
02:53:29 AM  all    0.05    0.00   12.10   16.30    0.24    0.43    0.00   70.88   3278.40
02:53:34 AM  all    0.00    0.00   12.30   17.90    0.24    0.43    0.00   69.13   3410.80
02:53:39 AM  all    0.05    0.00   15.33   15.81    0.29    0.53    0.00   68.00   3915.20
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sabayonx86-64 / # dd bs=1M count=20000 if=/dev/md0 of=/dev/null
20000+0 records in
20000+0 records out
20971520000 bytes (21 GB) copied, 41.7721 s, 502 MB/s

03:06:56 AM  CPU   %user   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal   %idle    intr/s
03:07:01 AM  all    0.05    0.00   13.08    5.48    0.88    2.35    0.00   78.16  10504.60
03:07:06 AM  all    0.05    0.00   12.02    5.54    0.88    2.35    0.00   79.16   9570.20
03:07:11 AM  all    0.05    0.00   15.19    3.80    1.04    2.76    0.00   77.16  10680.20
03:07:16 AM  all    0.05    0.00   16.39    3.16    1.09    3.01    0.00   76.31  11460.80
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sabayonx86-64 test # dd bs=1M count=20000 if=/dev/zero of=./file.bin
20000+0 records in
20000+0 records out
20971520000 bytes (21 GB) copied, 157.475 s, 133 MB/s

03:10:39 AM  all    0.10    0.00   11.71   20.26    0.24    0.38    0.00   67.32   2436.00
03:10:44 AM  all    0.00    0.00   12.42   20.03    0.24    0.48    0.00   66.83   2545.80
03:10:49 AM  all    0.05    0.00   12.75   23.00    0.14    0.43    0.00   63.62   2545.80
03:10:54 AM  all    0.05    0.00   13.71   15.95    0.29    0.53    0.00   69.48   2759.80
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sabayonx86-64 test # dd bs=1M if=./file.bin of=/dev/null
20000+0 records in
20000+0 records out
20971520000 bytes (21 GB) copied, 39.3582 s, 533 MB/s

03:14:21 AM  CPU   %user   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal   %idle    intr/s
03:14:26 AM  all    0.05    0.00   13.07    7.47    0.91    1.05    0.00   77.44   8511.40
03:14:31 AM  all    0.05    0.00   12.42    7.69    0.91    1.05    0.00   77.89   8084.80
03:14:36 AM  all    0.05    0.00   11.61    7.84    0.76    1.19    0.00   78.55   7689.20
03:14:41 AM  all    0.05    0.00   12.75    7.75    0.90    1.00    0.00   77.55   8433.40
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Raid6:

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sabayonx86-64 / # dd bs=1M count=20000 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0
20000+0 records in
20000+0 records out
20971520000 bytes (21 GB) copied, 175.115 s, 120 MB/s

03:16:47 AM  CPU   %user   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal   %idle    intr/s
03:16:52 AM  all    0.00    0.00   11.01   17.33    0.14    0.43    0.00   71.08   3163.00
03:16:57 AM  all    0.05    0.00   10.53   15.65    0.24    0.34    0.00   73.19   3218.60
03:17:02 AM  all    0.05    0.00   11.14   16.39    0.19    0.43    0.00   71.79   3389.40
03:17:07 AM  all    0.05    0.00   11.69   16.32    0.19    0.39    0.00   71.37   3413.00
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sabayonx86-64 / # dd bs=1M count=20000 if=/dev/md0 of=/dev/null
20000+0 records in
20000+0 records out
20971520000 bytes (21 GB) copied, 49.5157 s, 424 MB/s

03:22:03 AM  CPU   %user   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal   %idle    intr/s
03:22:08 AM  all    0.05    0.00   13.12    5.92    0.69    2.06    0.00   78.17  10281.80
03:22:13 AM  all    0.05    0.00   11.02    5.88    0.54    1.62    0.00   80.90   8632.20
03:22:18 AM  all    0.05    0.00   14.03    5.05    0.69    2.06    0.00   78.13  10205.40
03:22:23 AM  all    0.05    0.00   12.39    5.48    0.69    1.76    0.00   79.63   8747.80
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sabayonx86-64 test # dd bs=1M count=20000 if=/dev/zero of=./file.bin
20000+0 records in
20000+0 records out
20971520000 bytes (21 GB) copied, 207.273 s, 101 MB/s

03:24:16 AM  CPU   %user   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal   %idle    intr/s
03:24:21 AM  all    0.05    0.00    9.02   23.67    0.19    0.24    0.00   66.83   2132.60
03:24:26 AM  all    0.00    0.00    8.12   21.18    0.05    0.39    0.00   70.26   2051.40
03:24:31 AM  all    0.05    0.00    9.57   25.58    0.14    0.38    0.00   64.28   2421.40
03:24:36 AM  all    0.00    0.00    9.48   26.40    0.15    0.44    0.00   63.54   2424.80
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sabayonx86-64 test # dd bs=1M if=./file.bin of=/dev/null
20000+0 records in
20000+0 records out
20971520000 bytes (21 GB) copied, 50.3337 s, 417 MB/s

03:28:21 AM  CPU   %user   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal   %idle    intr/s
03:28:26 AM  all    0.00    0.00   10.32    9.02    0.63    0.63    0.00   79.40   6967.80
03:28:31 AM  all    0.00    0.00   10.29    9.04    0.63    0.82    0.00   79.22   7013.80
03:28:36 AM  all    0.05    0.00   10.59    9.05    0.63    0.77    0.00   78.92   7011.00
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Its' an incredible performer for the price and it's features (ports).

I would die and go to heaven if Supermicro made the next generation of this card but PCIE and give it MiniSAS headers for tidy cables.
 
Ockie said:
I would die and go to heaven if Supermicro made the next generation of this card but PCIE and give it MiniSAS headers for tidy cables.
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LOL, I agree, it would be very usable in my backup server, among others!
 
These Supermicro cards are great.

I dunno about PCIe I kinda like it being PCI/PCI-x compatible. But definately MiniSAS headers would be sweet.

EDIT: well if it were pcie x1 I would like that cause so many desktop boards have x1 slots and it seems that nothing useful actually uses x1 slots.
 
nitrobass24 said:
These Supermicro cards are great.

I dunno about PCIe I kinda like it being PCI/PCI-x compatible. But definately MiniSAS headers would be sweet.

EDIT: well if it were pcie x1 I would like that cause so many desktop boards have x1 slots and it seems that nothing useful actually uses x1 slots.
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PCIE devices are backwards compatible in most cases to x1 or whatever lower slot that you have, so yes, that would make use of the useless x1 slots :)
 
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