Thursday, October 23
I Know What I Want For Christmas
A few months ago, I wrote a quick note about the Fusion-IO ioDrive. I said at the time:
But can it really do 120,000 IOPS? Well, let's start with a 40GB random-write test. Single threaded, with no optimisations. And the envelope please...
Okay, that's not 120,000. But 67,000 without any tweaking at all is amazing. I have the same test running on a standard SATA drive; it's sustaining a little over 300 IOPS, making the ioDrive easily 200 times faster.
I've got a lot more testing to do, but so far it looks like the ioDrive really delivers the goods.
Unfortunately, since June the Aussie dollar has drifted south by about 30% and I can no longer afford the card, at least not short of working every Sunday for two months. But there are some cheaper, lower-end drives showing up, and I'd be very happy with a quarter of the ioDrive's performance for a quarter of the price.
Comments are disabled.
Post is locked.
A few months ago, I wrote a quick note about the Fusion-IO ioDrive. I said at the time:
80GB. $2400. 9 watts. 120,000 IOPS. 600MB/second random writes.Now I've got one for testing at my day job.
If this thing really delivers, it's a silver bullet for mid-scale databases. I want a silver bullet for mid-scale databases.
But can it really do 120,000 IOPS? Well, let's start with a 40GB random-write test. Single threaded, with no optimisations. And the envelope please...
random-write: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=4626Whoa.
write: io=40,000MiB, bw=271MiB/s, iops=67,869, runt=150877msec
clat (usec): min=4, max=37,767, avg=12.32, stdev=44.36
bw (KiB/s) : min= 0, max=335749, per=99.90%, avg=277725.87, stdev=25273.96
cpu : usr=15.47%, sys=83.93%, ctx=5153, majf=1, minf=2152631
Okay, that's not 120,000. But 67,000 without any tweaking at all is amazing. I have the same test running on a standard SATA drive; it's sustaining a little over 300 IOPS, making the ioDrive easily 200 times faster.
I've got a lot more testing to do, but so far it looks like the ioDrive really delivers the goods.
Unfortunately, since June the Aussie dollar has drifted south by about 30% and I can no longer afford the card, at least not short of working every Sunday for two months. But there are some cheaper, lower-end drives showing up, and I'd be very happy with a quarter of the ioDrive's performance for a quarter of the price.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at
01:23 PM
| Comments (9)
| Add Comment
| Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 234 words, total size 2 kb.
1
Was it planned to hold the database entirely on the IO drive ?
That would be something. And using 9 watts !
That would be something. And using 9 watts !
Posted by: Andrew at Thursday, October 23 2008 03:52 PM (/uGTr)
2
Yep, that's what we're planning to do. We might end up needing a 160GB card, or two 80GB cards striped together, but it's actually cheaper than a SCSI RAID array.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, October 23 2008 04:00 PM (PiXy!)
Posted by: Andrew at Thursday, October 23 2008 05:04 PM (/uGTr)
4
How many PCIe slots does your server have?
Posted by: JV at Sunday, October 26 2008 10:24 AM (DpWT+)
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Sunday, October 26 2008 07:17 PM (73lWn)
6
Thanks Muppet. May I e-mail my nightmares to you tonight?
Posted by: ubu at Thursday, October 30 2008 11:01 AM (ASksU)
7
Hi Pixy....Um....can I....I mean, may I ask for a Christmas present? I need help! I've been a very bad blogger, not updating stuff and junk, and now, there is so much spam that I have to close comments. Help for a wayward munu?
Posted by: Key at Sunday, November 02 2008 11:09 AM (EN2X1)
8
I'll see if I can do something about that, Key.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, November 02 2008 04:02 PM (PiXy!)
9
Well, my first attempt blew up the server (or at least, pushed the load average up to 350), so I'll try doing something a little different there...
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, November 02 2008 05:03 PM (PiXy!)
49kb generated in CPU 0.0166, elapsed 0.1693 seconds.
56 queries taking 0.1576 seconds, 356 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.
56 queries taking 0.1576 seconds, 356 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.