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During the last days, I have had the opportunity to test and benchmark a data warehousing hardware, that’s really fast for its money. It’s not suitable for real/available production, since it depends on disk striping over a bunch of components, but I considered it as a good way to push the limits a bit.

Result: A throughput of about 1200MB/s and nearly 1200 iops. Period. You may quickly want to see detailed results on the bottom of the page, but for fully understanding of the results look up the setup as well.
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Hi,

imagine a 2,5″ SATAII disk in a 3,5″ heat sink. It’s 300 GB in size, 120MB/s buffer-to-disk rate, 16 MB Cache, 10.000 RPM, consuming 6 Watts under load.

Look here.

I think this baby should take up to 150 IO/s, in combination with RAID 0+1 and a decent RAID controller or/and (Oracle’s) ASM this can be a weapon. Especially for a bunch of redo log disks… *dreaming*

I think it’s hot stuff
Usn