According to Dell and LSI, this is a high-performance I/O accelerator for SSD arrays configured as a virtual disk (or volume) behind a Dell PERC controller.
A Principled Technologies test report 2ģ The Dell PERC H700 features Cut-Through IO (based on LSI s FastPath Technology). We used the same Iometer workload across both SSD storage solutions, but tuned the number of outstanding I/Os to obtain the maximum possible input/output operations per second () for each controller and each RAID level tested. We used Iometer version on the servers to simulate various typical server workloads on the RAID controllers and corresponding storage. Iometer can create and measure workloads on a single system or on networked systems. Iometer performs input/output (I/O) operations on a system in order to stress the system, and then records the performance of and system stress created by these I/O operations. WHAT WE TESTED Iometer measures input/output per second () on single and clustered systems. Percentage Dell SATA SSD solution win over the HP SATA SSD solution 200% 180% 160% 140% 120% 100% 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% 104.5% 114.6% 148.3% 182.9% 155.9% RAID 0 RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 10 RAID 50 Figure 1: Average percentage wins of the Dell SATA SSD solution over the HP SATA SSD solution. We present additional results in the What we found section of this report. As Figure 1 shows, across all RAID levels, the Dell SATA SSD solution delivered from percent to percent average greater performance in than the HP SATA SSD solution. The goal of this report is to show the performance increase one can expect from the Dell SATA SSD solution over the HP SATA SSD solution.
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SEPTEMBER 2010 A PRINCIPLED TECHNOLOGIES TEST REPORT Commissioned by Dell Inc.Ģ Percentage win PROJECT OVERVIEW We tested the following server and storage solutions: Dell PowerEdge R710 server using the PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H700 with six SATA solid state drives and two SAS hard disk drives (Dell SATA SSD solution) HP ProLiant D元80 G7 server using the HP Smart Array P410i controller with six SATA solid state drives and two SAS hard disk drives (HP SATA SSD solution) For testing, the servers ran Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition.
We ran these tests against five common RAID levels: RAID 0, 5, 6, 10, and 50. We ran nine Iometer access specifications, which included OLTP database, Microsoft Exchange Server, file server, and typical operating system workloads. OUR PROCESS We used the Iometer benchmark to gauge how well each server and storage solution would handle a variety of common storage tasks.
In Principled Technologies tests in our labs, the Dell PowerEdge R710 server with the PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H700 and six SATA solid state drives (SSDs) delivered up to percent greater performance than the current HP ProLiant D元80 G7 server with the HP Smart Array P410i controller and six SATA SSDs. There are, however, differences among the latest offerings from major vendors. HP PROLIANT D元80 G7 OUR FINDINGS Advances in controller and drive technologies allow today s servers to handle an ever more demanding workload. 1 DRIVE PERFORMANCE COMPARISON: DELL POWEREDGE R710 VS.