Serious Dell Sadness - H200, H700, and H800

[Eric Thiele]

Hoping to ride your coattails to success on my project...

I'm in a <state gov't with 25B+ red ink> shop with no budget for
exploration.
I can't buy gear just to kick the tires.
So I need to go to school on others' efforts.

Your situation is about as close as I've found.

I've got a Splunk implementation to do - on R710's - and I'm trying to
decide if
the 7200rpm 1TBG SAS drives are "good enough" - or do I have to spec the
10000rpm 600GB drives (and buy additional servers to make up for the lost
capacity with the smaller drives.

Did you get any resolution from Dell?
Do you remember what sort of IOPS bonnie++ reported on the disks that you
were testing?

Thanks -
Eric Thiele


Borja Marcos-2 wrote:
> 
> 	
> On Jan 20, 2011, at 4:04 AM, Tom Daly wrote:
> 
>> Disk throughput is being tested using Bonnie++. IO performance on FreeBSD
>> 8.1 vs. Debian Squeeze seems to be about 25% better, FWIW, on the <2TB
>> RAID volumes.
>> 
>> Any thoughts, anyone?
> 
> I'm finding Dell increasingly annoying by the hour. I have a couple of
> machines with the dreaded H700 adapter, up to date firmware, and I have
> had a couple of freezes due to the "mfi timeout issue".
> 
> Worse, I don't really need those crappy RAID adapters, I just want direct
> access to the disks. (I use ZFS)
> 
> Now I'm trying the H200 cards, which seem to work well with the mps driver
> I've taken from 9-CURRENT.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Borja.
> 
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