Sorry, we no longer have these test drives :(

Paul

-- 
Paul Emmerich

Looking for help with your Ceph cluster? Contact us at https://croit.io

croit GmbH
Freseniusstr. 31h
81247 München
www.croit.io
Tel: +49 89 1896585 90


On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 1:48 PM <vita...@yourcmc.ru> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The results look strange to me...
>
> To begin with, it's strange that read and write performance differs. But
> the thing is that a lot (if not most) large Seagate EXOS drives have
> internal SSD cache (~8 GB of it). I suspect that new EXOS also does and
> I'm not sure if Toshiba has it. It could explain the write performance
> difference in your test.
>
> Try to disable Seagates' write cache with sdparm --set WCE=0 /dev/sdX
> and see how the performance changes. If there is an SSD cache you'll
> probably see an increase in iops. Due to the nature of Bluestore and at
> least with an external block.db on SSD the difference is like ~230 iops
> vs ~1200 iops with iodepth=1. This is the result for ST8000NM0055.
>
> Also it's strange that read performance is almost the same. Can you
> benchmark the drive with fio alone, without Ceph?
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > we ran some benchmarks with a few samples of Seagate's new HDDs that
> > some of you might find interesting:
> >
> > Blog post:
> >
> > https://croit.io/2020/01/06/2020-01-06-benchmark-mach2
> >
> > GitHub repo with scripts and raw data:
> > https://github.com/croit/benchmarks/tree/master/mach2-disks
> >
> > Tl;dr: way faster for writes, somewhat faster for reads in some
> > scenarios
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > --
> > Paul Emmerich
> >
> > Looking for help with your Ceph cluster? Contact us at
> > https://croit.io
> >
> > Looking for Ceph training? We have some free spots available
> > https://croit.io/training/4-days-ceph-in-depth-training
> >
> > croit GmbH
> > Freseniusstr. 31h
> > 81247 München
> > www.croit.io [1]
> > Tel: +49 89 1896585 90
> >
> > Links:
> > ------
> > [1] http://www.croit.io
> > _______________________________________________
> > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@ceph.io
> > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-le...@ceph.io
>
_______________________________________________
ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@ceph.io
To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-le...@ceph.io

Reply via email to