SUN A5200 Array - What type of performance?

[FrankieAIX]

I have a SUN A5200 Array connected to a Windows 2003 PC. The drives are 10K RPM and are configured as RAID 0 (5 Drives). When sending data to the stripe the performance is equal to that of IDE to IDE.

How long should it take to transfer 4GB of data to the stripe of 5 disks?

Thanks in advance!

-FrankieAIX

 

[comtec17]

This depends on a few things;

Type of connection to the array

Speed of the bus on the server

Is the adapter on a seperate bus

Type of data, large block, small block

Method of moving data.

 

[FrankieAIX]

Type of connection to the array" - Fiber Direct

"Speed of the bus on the server" - 33mhz PCI slot

"Type of data, large block, small block" - Both types

"Method of moving data." - Drag & Drop

Data will be coming from internal 7,200 RPM drive to the Stripe.

I am not looking for precise to the minute second transfer time, but a good estimate of transfer time.

What I am presently seeing is to transfer 4GB regardless of being large block or small block data takes about 25 Minutes...................

If I transfer the same data over 100mb ethernet to another PC's internal 7,200 RPM drive with OS on the same drive it takes far less about 16minutes....

The Fiber Channel Adapter I am using is a Emulex LP8000.

I have turned off the other GBIC's on the Array so the transfer is going through a single GBIC and not scanning the other GBIC's.....

-FrankieAIX