Flash Drive Btrfs RAUD File-System Test Four USB 3.0 flash drive tested in Btrfs RAID on Ubuntu Linux. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix. Single Drive: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20150811, Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.5.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Four Drive RAID0: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20150811, Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.5.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Four Drive RAID1: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20150811, Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.5.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Four Drive RAID5: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20150811, Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.5.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Four Drive RAID6: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20150811, Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.5.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Four Drive RAID10: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20150811, Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.5.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s Single Drive ...... 5.76 |===================================================== Four Drive RAID0 .. 5.37 |================================================= Four Drive RAID1 .. 5.19 |================================================ Four Drive RAID5 .. 4.69 |=========================================== Four Drive RAID6 .. 4.92 |============================================= Four Drive RAID10 . 5.14 |=============================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s Single Drive ...... 10.40 |============================ Four Drive RAID0 .. 18.50 |=================================================== Four Drive RAID1 .. 10.81 |============================== Four Drive RAID5 .. 5.04 |============== Four Drive RAID6 .. 5.49 |=============== Four Drive RAID10 . 19.04 |==================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s Single Drive ...... 24.46 |============ Four Drive RAID0 .. 100.74 |=================================================== Four Drive RAID1 .. 26.68 |============== Four Drive RAID5 .. 64.66 |================================= Four Drive RAID6 .. 60.23 |============================== Four Drive RAID10 . 64.12 |================================ Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s Single Drive ...... 25.99 |================== Four Drive RAID0 .. 73.78 |==================================================== Four Drive RAID1 .. 29.55 |===================== Four Drive RAID5 .. 26.89 |=================== Four Drive RAID6 .. 28.50 |==================== Four Drive RAID10 . 51.10 |==================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Single Drive ...... 7.28 |=============================== Four Drive RAID0 .. 12.40 |==================================================== Four Drive RAID1 .. 7.17 |============================== Four Drive RAID5 .. 1.70 |======= Four Drive RAID6 .. 4.02 |================= Four Drive RAID10 . 10.87 |============================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Single Drive ...... 9.43 |================================ Four Drive RAID0 .. 15.13 |==================================================== Four Drive RAID1 .. 9.23 |================================ Four Drive RAID5 .. 1.83 |====== Four Drive RAID6 .. 4.45 |=============== Four Drive RAID10 . 12.70 |============================================ IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Single Drive ...... 18.08 |================= Four Drive RAID0 .. 54.40 |==================================================== Four Drive RAID1 .. 20.37 |=================== Four Drive RAID5 .. 37.29 |==================================== Four Drive RAID6 .. 16.68 |================ Four Drive RAID10 . 33.32 |================================ PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Single Drive ...... 3867 |========================================== Four Drive RAID0 .. 4929 |===================================================== Four Drive RAID1 .. 3583 |======================================= Four Drive RAID5 .. 1795 |=================== Four Drive RAID6 .. 1248 |============= Four Drive RAID10 . 3768 |========================================= SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Single Drive ...... 865.61 |==================== Four Drive RAID0 .. 769.47 |================== Four Drive RAID1 .. 1036.02 |======================== Four Drive RAID5 .. 2012.67 |=============================================== Four Drive RAID6 .. 2155.89 |================================================== Four Drive RAID10 . 850.14 |====================