Benchmarks

Testing the benchmark scripts – 1

I’m getting very slow throughput on these drives during my first set of tests. I have no idea why… The drive in question is: $ grep ada2 /var/run/dmesg.boot ada2 at ahcich4 bus 0 scbus5 target 0 lun 0 ada2: <ST2000DM001-1CH164 CC24> ATA-8 SATA 3.x device ada2: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes) ada2: Command

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Benchmarking the Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series DXM03B0Q

Today, I’ll be benchmarking a Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series DXM03B0Q. I’ve had this for a couple of weeks, but I’ve not been ready for it until today. This drive will not be detected by FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE and before. A relatively recent commit fixed a problem with When I booted with the SSD installed, I

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Benchmarking the TOSHIBA DT01ACA300

Tonight I received a TOSHIBA DT01ACA300 3TB HDD. This is a 7200 RPM SATA III drive. Tests were run with FreeBSD 9.1 in the hardware listed below. The hardware We are testing on the following hardware: motherboard – SUPERMICRO MBD-H8SGL-O ATX Server Motherboard (Supermicro link): $224.99 CPU – AMD Opteron 6128 Magny-Cours 2.0GHz 8 x

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Benchmarking the Seagate ST2000DM001

I have a Seagate ST2000DM001 sitting in a server. I’ve run some simple tests. Results are below. Tests were run with FreeBSD 9.1 in the hardware listed below. The hardware We are testing on the following hardware: motherboard – SUPERMICRO MBD-H8SGL-O ATX Server Motherboard (Supermicro link): $224.99 CPU – AMD Opteron 6128 Magny-Cours 2.0GHz 8

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