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michelkenny
Sep 26, 2006Aspirant
Post your performance results
I thought it might be interesting to see what kind of performance everyone is getting with IO Meter so that we can compare what we're getting. So I thought we could all post our results in this thread...
Milhouse
Oct 08, 2010Tutor
Homebuild PC
Windows 7 64-Bit, Intel i860 3GHz quad core with hyperthreading, 8GB RAM, Realtek 1GB NIC with 7K Jumbo Frames
NAS
ReadyNAS NV with 1GB RAM, X-RAID (4x1TB Samsung HD103SJ), RAIDiator 4.1.6 (16K Blocks), 37% of 2776GB used
7K Jumbo Frames, all Journalling disabled, no Fast CIFS writes (as Fast CIFS Writes screw up Thunderbird)
Switch
SMCGS8 GigE EZ-Switch, CAT5e cabling
IOMeter 2006.07.27
Standard config, 256K sequential read/write, 1GB test file over CIFS, 2 minutes per run.
Results
Read: 40.23MB/s, 6.21ms average response, 4.38% CPU utilization
Write: 37.64MB/s, 6.63ms average response. 2.71% CPU utilization
Happy with that. :)

Yellow for READ, red for WRITE
Windows 7 64-Bit, Intel i860 3GHz quad core with hyperthreading, 8GB RAM, Realtek 1GB NIC with 7K Jumbo Frames
NAS
ReadyNAS NV with 1GB RAM, X-RAID (4x1TB Samsung HD103SJ), RAIDiator 4.1.6 (16K Blocks), 37% of 2776GB used
7K Jumbo Frames, all Journalling disabled, no Fast CIFS writes (as Fast CIFS Writes screw up Thunderbird)
Switch
SMCGS8 GigE EZ-Switch, CAT5e cabling
IOMeter 2006.07.27
Standard config, 256K sequential read/write, 1GB test file over CIFS, 2 minutes per run.
Results
Read: 40.23MB/s, 6.21ms average response, 4.38% CPU utilization
Write: 37.64MB/s, 6.63ms average response. 2.71% CPU utilization
Happy with that. :)

Yellow for READ, red for WRITE
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