MSA1000 is sloooooow

[jharrell2]

yea, as soon as i posted that i saw a spec sheet out there somewhere (non HP) that said 160.


Anyone wanna make an offer?!? Its still under warranty!

[jharrell2]

Just kidding on that above comment, i'm sure thats against the TOS. I'm closing this post.
Thanks

[jharrell2]

Controller appears to be SCSI-160

[S. Boetticher]

yes, marketing vs. real world...

Some years ago we tested a MSA1000 with around 30 spindles (10k) with RAID-5 as a backup2disk array with FC connection to a single Backup server.

we never got much more than 35MB/s

HP tested our setup too and said, they couldn't improve: it was designed for good perf with many hosts, not a single one. And the 200MB/s was marketing...

So, MSA1000 turned out to be not a proper system for our backup requirements (an EVA3000 did the job easily, by the way)