unRAID 6 benchmarks
Now that I've got unRAID up & running I thought it would be interesting to run some benchmarks so I could determine what kind of speed to expect. I have purchased a gigabit switch and cat6a ethernet cables for wiring everything up so this as fast as I can get for now. The program I used to run these benchmarks is called 'CrystalDiskMark'. This is with two WD Red 3TB drives with one acting as a parity disk.
I don't think that's too bad considering I don't have a cache device set up yet. Still slower than my desktop mechanical drive for both sequential read and write speeds but I doubt I will notice the difference when it comes to real world usage - Hopefully anyway. Parity certainly had more of an impact on the speeds than I would have liked. My internal 1TB WD Blue mechanical drive clocked the below speeds. Much faster for sequential reads and writes but a hell of lot slower for the 4k metrics.
I'll probably revisit this in the future when I set up my cache device.
I'm thinking about installing unRAID on my machine so I can have the benefits of virtualization, but still use my machine as my gaming rig, but I'm looking for what other people are getting with unRAID...
ReplyDeleteMy machine it's a skylake 6100, 16gb RAM. I got an 256GB SSD, and some 2.5" HD's (500gb and 1tb).
Do you think I can have some performance gains from having the SSD as cache?
My plan is not about network share performance, my main concern is that local performance stay top, while having virtualization benefits.