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Sequential Speed of Large Transfers with SSDs

2014-11-19 - Send Feedback
Related: Other World Computing, OWC Thunderbay, RAID, RAID-0, RAID-5, SSD, storage, Thunderbolt, video

OWC Thunderbay Mini

Thunderbay Mini configurations start at about $379 without drives. Thunderbay Mini RAID-5 edition also available.

MPG tested the throughput of the OWC Thunderbay 4 Mini using DiskTester run-sequential-suite on a late 2013 MacBook Pro Retina (Thunderbolt 2).

SSDs: OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G.

Large transfers

disktester fill-volume --xfer 128M

64K stripe size.

Shown below are four SSDs configured three different ways: RAID-0 stripe, RAID-5, RAID 1+0. Speeds are throughput through the OS X file system, as a an application would do.

SoftRAID 5 delivers an outstanding performance using four SSDs no matter which type of RAID is used. The highest performance is RAID-0 (striping), then RAID-5 (striping with parity) and then RAID 1+0 (striped mirrors).

OWC Thunderbay Mini performance: 4 OWC 6G SSDs, large transfers with RAID-0, RAID-5, RAID 1+0

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