14 March 2009
SSD benchmarking
Posted by Norman under: Uncategorized .
Below is the benchmark results of 3 hard drive systems we tested in house.
benchmarks taken by Bonnie+++ software, because this servers is varied in RAID setup and OS versions, you can use this results to feel the difference between systems and not as scientific comparison.
System1 is using 2 x 250GB SATA II drives in RAID-1, System2 is using 2 x 300 GB SAS drives in RAID-1 and system3 is using 4 x 64 SSD drives in RAID-5.
table below shows the speed of the 3 systems during the test, the numbers in orange cells BIGGER is BETTER.
the SSD system is 500% faster than the other 2 systems in Writing, 350% faster in re-writing, 700% faster in reading and 1000% times faster in file seeking.
to be honest, its hard to tell in the busy shared hosting server, what the actual improvement in server speed, but the sure thing, there will be no longer a disk I/O bottleneck in such server!