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HP DL320s Enterprise Storage

    System used for testing:


    HP DL320s dual core CPU with 8GB RAM
    Ten Seagate 15k.5 300GB drives in raid 0, raid 5 and raid 6
    HP P400i storage controller with 512MB cache and battery

For benchmarking we used CrystalDisk and HDTune

Please see CrystalDisk results below

HP DL320s Ten 300GB 15K disks in Raid 0

The results are very low and we attribute this to the p400i controller card.

The controller card manages all the disks on one port. We saw poor results from this controller card in previous benchmarks Please take a look at Perc6i vs P400i results

Now lets take a look at the results of HDTune

HD Tune Read test

HD Tune Write test

HD Tune Random test

HP DL320s Ten 300GB 15K disks in Raid 5

HP DL320s Ten 300GB 15K disks in Raid 6

Conclusion

Results from HP DL320s are low compared to other cheap alternatives, but you are getting an enterprise server that was designed for reliability and large capacity.