Tag Archives: SPECsfs2008

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 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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IBM’s 120PB storage system

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Ray

Talk about big data, Technology Review reported this week that IBM is building a 120PB storage system for some unnamed customer.  Details are sketchy and I cannot seem to find any announcement of this on IBM.com. Hardware It appears that … 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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Latest SPECsfs2008 results – chart of the month

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Ray

The above chart comes from our last month’s newsletter on the lastest SPECsfs2008 file system performance benchmark results and depicts a scatter plot of system NFS throughput operations per second versus the number of disk drives in the system being tested.  We eliminate … Continue reading →

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New file system capacity tool – Microsoft’s FSCT

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Ray

Jose Barreto blogged about a recent report Microsoft did on File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) results (blog here, report here).  As you may know FSCT is a free tool released in September of 2009, available from Microsoft that verifies a SMB … Continue reading →

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SCI’s latest SPECsfs2008 NFS ops vs. system size – chart of the month

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Ray

We return to our periodic discussion of storage system performance, this time on SPECsfs(r)2008 benchmark results for NFS file serving ops per second vs. system reported memory size.  For some obscure reason, I was very intrigued with this chart. Chart … 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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