RAID 10 disk activity

  • Hello,

    during msSQL backup we see the disk activity is using 99% approximately 650mb/s , which is using all the RAID 10 speed causing some slowdown with other queries running during the backup.

    Currently that setup with 4x 256GB Samsung SSD 840 PRO with 1 partition containing OS/data/logs. If I create more logical partition from this Array would it fix that 99% activity or there is something to limit the backup disk activity to 50% ?

  • bissagars (3/9/2015)


    Hello,

    during msSQL backup we see the disk activity is using 99% approximately 650mb/s , which is using all the RAID 10 speed causing some slowdown with other queries running during the backup.

    Currently that setup with 4x 256GB Samsung SSD 840 PRO with 1 partition containing OS/data/logs. If I create more logical partition from this Array would it fix that 99% activity or there is something to limit the backup disk activity to 50% ?

    Creating more logical partitions wont help at all. During the read phase of the backup it will be consuming pages at a hell of a rate, if you have logs on the same array you'll encounter read\write contention

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  • so it is better to create 2x RAID 1 Array and separate the data/logs and make the daily backup on the physical array which is doing write activity only?

    I don't need the speed of RAID 10 as our buffer I/O cumulative time is 550ms in a production database with 4 days online

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