Demartek LSI CacheCade Performance Evaluation in a Web Server Environment

Interest in solid-state storage (SSS) is high, and IT professionals are beginning to explore various ways to take advantage of the increased performance and reduced power consumption that SSS offers. Various enterprise applications across the spectrum of size and complexity may be good candidates for SSS.

SSS can be deployed directly as primary storage where the users decide what data to place on the storage, or it can be deployed as a cache in front of traditional storage, where the storage controller determines what data is placed on the SSS or solid state disk (SSD). Each implementation has advantages.

In this video, we implemented the LSI MegaRAID CacheCade software in a web server environment and compared the performance of hard disk drives (HDDs) to solid state disks (SSDs) in this environment. This video shows the highlights of this performance comparison. The full report is available at http://www.demartek.com/SSD in our SSD zone.

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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Demartek
• SSD
• LSI
• MegaRAID
• CacheCade
• Performance
• web server
• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Intel
• X25-E
• 720p
• Solid-state Drive
• IIS
• Internet Information Services

[Demartek]

We turned up the heat and did a test with the LSI WarpDrive. Check that video for much higher output.

[darkice1123]

I'd agree, pushing data from one HDD to another should be much faster. Also depends on the speed, and age(usage) of the drive. I would think.

[TheDataBase]

the first test shows around 50Megabits/second , isn't that to little output?