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Will Hybrid drives conquer enterprise storage?
I saw where Seagate announced the next generation of their Momentus XT Hybrid (SSD & Disk) drive this week. We haven’t discussed Hybrid drives much on this blog but it has become a viable product family. I am not planning on describing … Continue reading
Posted in Block Storage, Disk storage, File Storage, SSD storage, Storage architecture, Storage Features, Storage performance, Strategic Inflection Points, System effectiveness
Tagged backend storage, Caching, enterprise storage, FAST technology, hybrid drives, log structured files, NAND, NetApp, Seagate, Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid drive, SPC-2, SSD, WAFL
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SCI’s latest SPC-2 performance results analysis – chart-of-the-month
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
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
Posted in Block Storage, File Storage, Storage, Storage performance, System effectiveness, Systems
Tagged IO/s, IOPS, LRT, MB/s, MBPS, ORT, response time, SPC, SPC-1, SPC-2, SPEC, SPECsfs2008, throughput
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Latest SPC-2 results – chart of the month
Latest SPC-2 (Storage Performance Council-2) benchmark results chart displaying the top ten in aggregate MBPS(TM) broken down into Large File Processing (LFP), Large Database Query (LDQ) and Video On Demand (VOD) throughput results. One problem with this chart is that … Continue reading
Posted in Storage, Storage performance
Tagged Benchmarks, Chart of the month, Database transfers, file processing, HDS, HDS USP-V, HP, HP XP24000, IBM, IBM DS5300, IBM SVC, SPC-2, Sun, Sun 6780, video on demand
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