Tag Archives: SPC-1

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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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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Latest SPC-1 IOPS results – chart of the month

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Ray

As one can see from this chart clusters of off the shelf components are starting to dominate maximum IOPS performance in SPC-1. The newest member to this chart is the Huawei Symantec Oceanspace S8100 which sported 8 storage server nodes and came … Continue reading →

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SCI’s latest SPC-1&-1/E LRT results – chart of the month

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Ray

It’s been a while since we reported on Storage Performance Council (SPC) Least Response Time (LRT) results (see Chart of the month: SPC LRT[TM]).  This is one of the charts we produce for our monthly dispatch on storage performance (quarterly … Continue reading →

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Storage throughput vs. IO response time and why it matters

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Ray

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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SPC-1&-1/E results IOPS/Drive – chart of the month

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Ray

The chart shown here reflects information from a SCI StorInt(tm) dispatch on the latest Storage Performance Council benchmark performance results and depicts the top IO operations done per second per installed drive for SPC-1 and SPC-1/E submissions.  This particular storage … Continue reading →

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SPC Results IOPs vs. Capacity – chart of the month

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Ray

This chart is from SCI’s last months report on recent Storage Performance Council (SPC) benchmark results. There were a couple of new entries this quarter but we decided to introduce this new chart as well. This is a bubble scatter … Continue reading →

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Chart of the month: SPC LRT(tm) performance results

Posted on September 17, 2009 by Ray

The above chart shows the top 12 LRT(tm) (least response time) results for Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1 benchmark. The vertical axis is the LRT in milliseconds (msec.) for the top benchmark runs. As can be seen the two subsystems from … Continue reading →

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