THG RAID Scaling Article

[WhiteZero]

See how RAID 0, 1, and 0+1 scale between 2 and 8 drives.

Part 1
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/07/02/raid_scaling_charts/

 

[drizzt81]

thanks for the link.

 

[unhappy_mage]

Ah, Tom's, how I loathe thee.

Not only did they do tests that other people have done before, they didn't make any attempt to pick good tests out of the ones they could have done. Raid 0, 1, and 0+1 benchmarks on game loading times would have been really interesting - after all, those are the options most often brought up for good performance - but instead they run a boatload of synthetic benchmarks that mean very little to the average reader, and present no explanation of what those benchmarks mean.

Good job running benchmarks. Do it again, but, uh, better.

 

[drizzt81]

Ah, Tom's, how I loathe thee.

Not only did they do tests that other people have done before, they didn't make any attempt to pick good tests out of the ones they could have done. Raid 0, 1, and 0+1 benchmarks on game loading times would have been really interesting - after all, those are the options most often brought up for good performance - but instead they run a boatload of synthetic benchmarks that mean very little to the average reader, and present no explanation of what those benchmarks mean.

Good job running benchmarks. Do it again, but, uh, better.

Maybe we can hope for part 2?