Tag Archives: ORT

Storage throughput vs. IO response time and why it matters

Lost in much of the discussions on storage system performance is the need for both throughput and response time measurements. By IO throughput I generally mean data transfer speed in megabytes per second (MB/s or MBPS), however another definition of … Continue reading

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SPECsfs2008 CIFS ORT performance – chart of the month

The above chart on SPECsfs(R) 2008 results was discussed in our latest performance dispatch that went out to SCI’s newsletter subscribers last month.  We have described Apple’s great CIFS ORT performance in previous newsletters but here I would like to … Continue reading

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