Category Archives: Storage drive

Latest SPECsfs2008 results, over 1 million NFS ops/sec – chart-of-the-month

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Ray

[We are still catching up on our charts for the past quarter but this one brings us up to date through last month] There’s just something about a million SPECsfs2008(r) NFS throughput operations per second that kind of excites me (weird, … Continue reading →

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SCI’s latest SPC-2 performance results analysis – chart-of-the-month

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Ray

There really wasn’t that many new submissions for the Storage Performance Council SPC-1 or SPC-2 benchmarks this past quarter (just the new Fujitsu DX80S2 SPC-2 run) so we thought it time to roll out a new chart. The chart above … Continue reading →

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Disk capacity growing out-of-sight

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Ray

Last week, Hitachi Global Storage Division(acquired by Western Digital, closing in 4Q2011) and Seagate announced some higher capacity disk drives for desk top applications over the past week. Most of us in the industry have become somewhat jaded with respect … Continue reading →

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SCI May 2011, Latest SPC-1 results IOPS vs. drive count – chart of the month

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Ray

  The above chart is from our May Storage Intelligence newsletter dispatch on system performance and shows the latest Storage Performance Council SPC-1 benchmark results in a scatter plot with IO/sec [or IOPS(tm)] on the vertical axis and number of … Continue reading →

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Micron’s new P300 SSD and SSD longevity

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Ray

Micron just announced a new SSD drive based on their 34nm SLC NAND technology with some pretty impressive performance numbers.  They used an independent organization, Calypso SSD testing, to supply the performance numbers: Random Read 44,000 IO/sec Random Writes 16,000 IO/sec … Continue reading →

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