Storage Performance: first Mirroring FC/SAS 4Gb result
Thursday Apr 26, 2007
Here we show the first Mirroring FC/SAS 4Gb result with world record $/Perf beating HP by 2.5x in performance. The Sun StorageTek 2540 mid-range product coupled with Sun's 4Gb HBAs has demonstrated industry leading SPC-2 benchmarking. The Sun StorageTek 2540 has World Record $/performance of $46.26 $/SPC-2 MBPS and best-in-class performance of 730.04 SPC-2 MBPS.
Sun achieved this result using a RAID 5 storage configuration to protect all data against disk failures. Outside of Sun's prior submissions all other competitors used the same data protection showing an apples-to-apples comparison. Sun's StorageTek 2540 submissions can suffer a disk failure without incurring a lengthy service outage, during which time a full rollforward recovery from a backup must be performed.
SPC-2 Performance Data Protection Level: Mirroring
(in increasing $/performance order, only results to date)
| System | SPC-2 MBPS | $/SPC-2 MBPS | ASU Capacity (GB) | TSC Price | Date | Results Identifier |
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| Sun ST2540 | 730.04 | $46.26 | 1282.048 | $33,772 | 4/10/07 | B00022 |
| HP SW1000 | 285.39 | $73.12 | 362.925 | $20,868 | 3/09/07 | B00020 |
SPC-2 MBPS = the Performance Metric
$/SPC-2 MBPS = the Price/Performance Metric
ASU Capacity = the Capacity Metric
Data Protection = Data Protection Metric
TSC Price = Total Cost of Ownership Metric
Results Identifier = A unique identification of the result Metric
Benchmark Description
The SPC Benchmark-2 (SPC-2) is a series of related benchmark performance tests that simulate the sequential component of demands placed upon on-line, non-volatile storage in server class computer systems. SPC-2 provides measurements in support of real world environments characterized by:
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Large numbers of concurrent sequential transfers.
Demanding data rate requirements, including requirements for real time processing.
Diverse application techniques for sequential processing.
Substantial storage capacity requirements.
Data persistence requirements to ensure preservation of data without corruption or loss.
Disclosure Statement:
Sun StorageTek 2540 730.04 SPC-2 MBPS, $/SPC-2 MBPS $46.26, ASU Capacity 1,282.048GB, Protect Mirroring, Cost $33,772.00, Ident. B00022. SPC-2, SPC-2 MBPS, $/SPC-2 MBPS are regular trademarks of Storage Performance Council (SPC). More info http://storageperformance.org.
| Certified Results | |||
| System: | Sun StorageTek 2540 2 Controllers 36 73GB 15K RPM SAS drives 2x4Gb front-end ports 2x4Gb back-end ports 512MB controller cache (per controller) |
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| Performance: | 730.04 SPC-2 MBPS | ||
| Price/Performance: | $46.26 $/SPC-2 MBPS | ||
| ASU Capacity: | 1,282.048 GB | ||
| Data Protection Level: | Mirroring | ||
| TSC Price: | $33,772.00 | ||
| Results Identifier: | B00022 | ||
| Server: | Sun Fire X4600, 8x2.6GHz Opteron 885, 47.5GB | ||
| Operating System: | Solaris 10 11/06 | ||
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