On 10/01/2011 07:39 PM, David Boreham wrote:
I've already tried bonnie++, sysbench and a simple WAL emulation
test program I wrote more than 10 years ago.  The drive tests at
around 160Mbyte/s on bulk data and 4k tps for commit rate writing
small blocks.

That sounds about the same performance as the 320 drive I tested earlier this year then. You might try duplicating some of the benchmarks I ran on that: http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected]

Make sure to reference the capacity of the drive though. The 320 units do scale their performance based on that, presumably there's some of that with the 710s as well.

I just released a new benchmarking wrapper to measure seek performance of drives and graph the result, and that's giving me interesting results when comparing the 320 vs. traditional disk arrays. I've attached a teaser output from it on a few different drive setups I've tested recently. (The 320 test there was seeking against a smaller data set than the regular arrays, but its performance doesn't degrade much based on that anyway)

The program is at https://github.com/gregs1104/seek-scaling but it's still quite rough to use.

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