How should I test different drive pooling sollutions?

[zicoz]

Hi, I'm looking to run some tests of the different drive pooling sollutions that are out there, the three I'm looking to test at first is DriveBender (which is the one I've been using so far), Ldisk and StableBit DrivePool, but what programs should I use to run the tests?

 

[OBasel]

Why not replicate your own usage patterns on them?

 

[zicoz]

Well my usage pattern is mostly copy files to the server from one computer and then play them back from a HTPC, and doing that won't really give me any good results for a test of multiple drivepooling systems. I'd prefer to have a test program that can test read/write for the storage pool. And also test multiple read/writes at the same time.

 

[MiniKnight]

Virtual machines? That is not too hard to do manually.

 

[zicoz]

What do you mean MiniKnight?

 

[zicoz]

Ok, ran some tests with CrystalDiskMark, and here are the results:

Ldisk


1x4000MB:


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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 133.322 MB/s
Sequential Write : 133.415 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 38.416 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 50.496 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.418 MB/s [ 101.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.778 MB/s [ 189.8 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.772 MB/s [ 188.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.725 MB/s [ 176.9 IOPS]

Test : 4000 MB [D: 0.0% (2.9/7448.0 GB)] (x1)
Date : 2012/04/28 17:25:17
OS : Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)


9x4000MB:

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 134.072 MB/s
Sequential Write : 133.364 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 39.139 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 50.006 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.437 MB/s [ 106.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.786 MB/s [ 191.8 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.762 MB/s [ 186.1 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.771 MB/s [ 188.3 IOPS]

Test : 4000 MB [D: 0.0% (2.9/7448.0 GB)] (x9)
Date : 2012/04/28 17:46:18
OS : Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)


Stablebit

1x4000MB:

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 129.818 MB/s
Sequential Write : 128.192 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 38.067 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 21.877 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.422 MB/s [ 103.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.415 MB/s [ 101.3 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.696 MB/s [ 170.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.409 MB/s [ 99.8 IOPS]

Test : 4000 MB [D: 0.0% (0.6/7451.6 GB)] (x1)
Date : 2012/04/28 18:01:38
OS : Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)





9x4000MB:


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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 129.818 MB/s
Sequential Write : 128.719 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 38.397 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 22.405 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.426 MB/s [ 104.1 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.422 MB/s [ 103.1 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.706 MB/s [ 172.2 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.420 MB/s [ 102.6 IOPS]

Test : 4000 MB [D: 0.0% (0.6/7451.6 GB)] (x9)
Date : 2012/04/28 18:19:59
OS : Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)



DriveBender:

1x4000MB

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 796.866 MB/s
Sequential Write : 701.447 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 637.095 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 714.160 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 146.965 MB/s [ 35880.1 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 105.442 MB/s [ 25742.6 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 381.028 MB/s [ 93024.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 140.340 MB/s [ 34262.7 IOPS]

Test : 4000 MB [D: 0.0% (0.6/7451.6 GB)] (x1)
Date : 2012/04/28 18:29:24
OS : Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)


9x4000MB

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 776.076 MB/s
Sequential Write : 735.585 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 770.653 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 768.526 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 217.688 MB/s [ 53146.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 138.436 MB/s [ 33797.9 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 307.288 MB/s [ 75021.5 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 162.441 MB/s [ 39658.3 IOPS]

Test : 4000 MB [D: 0.0% (0.6/7451.6 GB)] (x9)
Date : 2012/04/28 18:42:46
OS : Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)

In other words Ldisk barely outperformed Stablebit Diskpool, while DriveBenders results are unusable.