Tag Archives: Chart of the month

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 disk … 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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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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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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Latest SPECsfs2008 results: NFSops vs. #disks – chart of the month

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Ray

Above one can see a chart from our September SPECsfs2008 Performance Dispatch displaying the scatter plot of NFS Throughput Operations/Second vs. number of disk drives in the solution.  Over the last month or so there has been a lot of Twitter … Continue reading →

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SPC-1/E IOPS per watt – chart of the month

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Ray

Not a lot of Storage Performance Council (SPC) benchmark submissions this past quarter just a new SPC-1/E from HP StorageWorks on their 6400 EVA with SSDs and a new SPC-1 run for Oracle Sun StorageTek 6780.  Recall that SPC-1/E executes … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Exchange Performance, ESRP v3.0 results – chart of the month

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Ray

There have been a number of Microsoft ESRP submissions this past quarter, especially in the over 5K mailbox category and they now total 12 submissions in this category alone. The above chart is one or a series of charts from … Continue reading →

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SPECsfs2008 CIFS ORT performance – chart of the month

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Ray

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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