SPC-2 Sun StorageTek 6540 (RAID 5) World Record $/performance
Tuesday Jan 23, 2007
The power of the Sun StorageTek 6540 mid-range product coupled with Sun's 4Gb HBAs has demonstrated industry leading SPC-2 benchmarking capabilities.
- Sun StorageTek 6540 has World Record $/performance of $92.41
- Sun StorageTek 6540 has best-in-class performance of 1,360.40 SPC-2 MBPS.
- First product to break the $100 price/performance barrier.
- 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 6540 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 just like the.
SPC-2 Performance Chart (in increasing price-performance order)
- SPC-2 MBPS = the Performance Metric
$/SPC-2 MBPS = the Price/Performance Metric
ASU Capacity = the Capacity Metric
TSC Price = Total Cost of Ownership Metric
Data Protection = Data Protection Metric (RAID 0, Mirroring, RAID 5, other)
Results Identifier = A unique identification of the result metric
| Sponsor | System | SPC-2 MBPS | $/SPC-2 MBPS | ASU Cap. (GB) | TSC Price | Data Protection Level | Pub. Date | Results Ident. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | StorageTek | 1360.40 | $92.41 | 3,350.074 | $125,719.00 | RAID 5 | 1/18/06 | B00015 |
| HP | EVA 8000 | 1137.78 | $346.43 | 6,571.275 | $394,152.00 | RAID 5 | 12/5/06 | B00004 |
Complete SPC-2 benchmark results may be found at http://www.storageperformance.org.
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:
- 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.
See Also
Sun StorageTek 6540 SPC-2 Executive Summary (6 pages) Acrob at PDF
Complete Sun StorageTek 6540 SPC-2 Full Disclosure Report Acrob at PDF
Disclosure Statement:
Sun StorageTek 6540 1360.40 SPC-2 MBPS, $/SPC-2 MBPS $92.41, ASU Capacity 3,350.074GB, Protect RAID 5, Cost $125,719.00, Ident. B00015. SPC-2, SPC-2 MBPS, $/SPC-2 MBPS are regular trademarks of Storage Performance Council (SPC). More info www.storageperformance.org
| Certified Results | |||
| System: | Sun StorageTek 6540, 2 controllers (4GB cache total, 2GB each), 64 72GB 15K RPM FC drives, 8 4Gb front-end ports, 4 4Gb back-end ports | ||
| Performance: | 1360.40 SPC-2 MBPS | ||
| Price/performance: | $92.41 $/SPC-2 MBPS | ||
| ASU Capacity: | 3,350.074 GB | ||
| Data Protection Level: | RAID 5 | ||
| TSC Price: | $125,719.00 | ||
| Results Identifier: | B00015 | ||
| Server: | Sun Fire E6900, 24 1.2GHz processors, 48GB memory, 8 4Gb HBAs | ||
| Operating System: | Solaris 10, update 2 | ||
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