Tag Archives: SPECsfs2008

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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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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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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SPECsfs(R) 2008 CIFS vs. NFS results – chart of the month

Posted on April 27, 2010 by Ray

We return now to our ongoing quest to understand the difference between CIFS and NFS performance in the typical data center.  As you may recall from past posts and our newsletters on this subject, we had been convinced that in SPECsfs … Continue reading →

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Latest CIFS performance – chart of the month

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Ray

Above we reproduce a chart from our latest newsletter StorInttm Dispatch on SPECsfs(R) 2008 benchmark results.  This chart shows the top 10 CIFS throughput benchmark results as of the end of last year.  As observed in the chart Apple’s Xserve … Continue reading →

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Latest SPECsfs2008 results – chart of the month

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Ray

The adjacent chart is from our September newsletter and shows the top 10 NFSv3 throughput results from the latest SPEC(R) sfs2008 benchmark runs published as of 25 September 2009. There have been a number of recent announcements of newer SPECsfs2008 … Continue reading →

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Symantec's FileStore

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Ray

Earlier this week Symantec GA’ed their Veritas FileStore software. This software was an outgrowth of earlier Symantec Veritas Cluster File System and Storage Foundation software which were combined with new frontend software to create scaleable NAS storage. FileStore is another … Continue reading →

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Chart of the Month

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Ray

The chart to the left was sent out in last months SCI newsletter and shows the throughput attained by various storage systems when running the SPECsfs(R) 2008 CIFS and NFS benchmarks. The scatter-plot shows data for NAS systems that have … Continue reading →

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