Friday, March 14, 2003

PCMark2002 Benchmarks

Finally got the new server up and running using the Promise SuperTrak SX6000 PCI card. This sweet card lets you chain together up to (6) ATA/100 drives into a RAID5 (or RAID0) configuration, plus uses ECC PC133 memory for cache (I dropped a 128Mb stick in). I took (6) 75Gb drives and put them in a RAID5 configuration with (1) hot-spare drive and now have a server with about 275Gb of user storage. (Don't think I'll be filling that up any time soon, although I have managed to fill 50 or 60 Gb.)

I re-ran the benchmark scores because I was curious as to what kind of performance boost I'd get from the RAID5 array. The CPU/Memory numbers may be a bit skewed as a result of installing a slower 8Mb AGP video card instead of the GeForce2 MX 400 64Mb AGP that was in there. I also had to get rid of a bad stick of memory.

old score
Athlon 1Ghz
768Mb PC133
mirrored 7200rpm IBM DeskStar ATA/100 HDs
CPU: 2500 MEM: 2000 HDD: 575

new score
Athlon 1Ghz
640Mb PC133
raid-5 7200 IBM DeskStar ATA/100 HDs
CPU: 2550 MEM: 1875 HDD: 690

Mmmmm, not bad, the RAID5 system gives me a decent boost over the old RAID1 setup (20%).

Labels: Benchmarks

posted by Wuphon's at 3:40 PM