Tag Archives: Chart of the month

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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Latest SPC-1 results – IOPS vs drive counts – chart-of-the-month

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Ray

[As promised, I am trying to get up-to-date on my performance charts from our monthly newsletters. This one brings us current up through November.] The above chart plots Storage Performance Council SPC-1 IOPS against spindle count.  On this chart, we have … Continue reading →

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ESRP v3 (Exchange 2010) log playback results, 1Kmbox&under – chart-of-the-month

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Ray

The above chart is from our last Exchange [2010] Solution Review Program (ESRP) performance dispatch released in our October newsletter (sign-up upper right).  The 1K mailbox and under category for ESRP represents Exchange storage solutions for SMB data centers. As … Continue reading →

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Latest SPECsfs2008 benchmarks analysis, CIFS vs NFS corrected – chart of the month

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Ray

We made a mistake in our last post discussing CIFS vs. NFS results using SPECsfs2008 benchmarks by including some storage systems that had SSDs in this analysis. All of our other per spindle/disk drive analyses exclude SSDs and NAND cache because they … 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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CIFS vs. NFS the saga continues, recent SPECsfs(R) 2008 results- chart of the month

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Ray

When last we discussed this topic, the tides had turned and the then current SPECsfs 2008 results had shown that any advantage that CIFS had over NFS was an illusion. Well there has been more activity for both CIFS and NFS … 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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Recent ESRP v3.0 (Exchange 2010) performance results – chart of the month

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Ray

We return to our monthly examination of storage performance, and this month’s topic is Exchange 2010 performance comparing results from the latest ESRP v3.0 (Exchange Solution Review Program).  This latest batch is for the 1K-and-under mailbox category and the log … Continue reading →

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