Hi!
I have a Dell server with PERC H730 RAID card. CPU is Xeon 1220v6 and 32GB DDR4 RAM is present. There are 4 SATA3 2Tb HDDs configured as RAID-10 array. The driver is scsi-aacraid.
Also I have an old desktop PC with Adaptec 2408 RAID card. CPU is Core 2 Duo E8500 and 8GB DDR3 RAM is present. There are 4 SATA2 250 Gb HDDs configured as RAID-10 array. The driver is lsi_mr3.
All of the HDDs are desktop-class and 7200 RPM.
Both arrays have enabled write-back caching, PERC has 1Gb cache and BBU, Adaptec has 128Mb cache and no BBU.
Both RAID cards are updated with latest firmware, and the BIOSes of the mainboards are also latest version.
Both rigs have ESXi 6.5U2 installed and both ESXi's have Windows 2016 Server virtual machines running on them.
From that Windows VMs I ran speed tests.
This is the storage speeds of the old PC:
This is the storage speeds of the new Dell server:
Now comes the question.
Why the old desktop configuration from 2008 shows same or even better datastorage performance than a brand new Dell server equipment from 2018?
If it's due to a misconfiguration, how do I resolve this issue?
Thank you!