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Intel taps MLC for cheaper enterprise SSDs

...are capable of up to 2,700 input/output operations per second (IOPS) for random writes and 38,500 for random reads, according to Intel... Read more

15 September, 2011 by Jack Clark

Micron announces PCIe-linked flash storage

...is capable of up to 750,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS) when reading random 4KB blocks and 298,000 at write. For sequential... Read more

2 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

Intel unveils third generation of SSDs

...is capable of up to 39,500 input/output operations per second (IOPS) random reads and 23,000 IOPS random writes. Sequential write speeds have... Read more

29 March, 2011 by Jack Clark

Fusion-io lays minefield with a billion IOPS

...back to the ioDrive2 cards. "What's the point of a billion IOPS if the operating system is only capable of a million?" Flynn said... Read more

7 January, 2012
Tactics in Optimizing Virtual Machine Disk <endeca_term>IOPS</endeca_term>

Tactics in Optimizing Virtual Machine Disk IOPS

Learn in The Essentials Series: Tactics in Optimizing Virtual Machine Disk IOPS how a bad design combined with incorrect VM configurations can be destructive... Read more

11 October, 2011

Converged Infrastructure vs Reference Architecture

This last fortnight there’s been a cacophony of hyperbole and at times marketing fluff from vendors and analysts with... Read more

22 April, 2012

vSphere 5, VAAI and the Death of the Storage Array

The launch of vSphere 5 and its new storage related features will set the precedent for a complete rethink on how a new... Read more

2 September, 2011

EMC bumps VMAX array to 4 petabytes

...its predecessor, with twice the number of input-output operations per second (IOPS) of any competing array, EMC said in a statement. It can use... Read more

21 May, 2012

Intel releases 330 SSD range

...read performance tops out at 22,500 input-output operations per second (IOPS) and 33,000 write IOPS. Random reads aside, this compares favourably with... Read more

17 April, 2012

Texas Memory Systems adds caching to PCIe flash

...the performance of VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual applications with impressive IOPS and sustain throughput for even the most data-intense business environments." The... Read more

28 March, 2012

Hitachi GST sends out 25nm enterprise flash drives

...500 read and 25,500 sustained write input/output operations per second (IOPS), the company said. These compare with the 41,000 read and 21... Read more

8 February, 2012

Are high-speed disks on the scrapheap?

...environment, which majors in random rather than sequential access requests, getting enough IOPS from spinning disks is a struggle. You can end up buying far... Read more

4 January, 2012

How do cloud providers distribute your data?

...or from a company using virtual desktops, which generates a lot of IOPS. So as well as balancing out the peaks and troughs in traffic... Read more

16 December, 2011

Exchange Completion Time - Defining Storage Performance

...and engineers have also been spun a yarn that MB/s and IOPS are somehow an accurate determination of performance and design considerations. In a... Read more

4 December, 2011

Fusion-io updates flagship ioDrive flash cards

...to Fusion-io. The 365GB MLC version is capable of 84,000 IOPS read and 502,000 write. Self-healing drivesIn addition, the server add... Read more

5 October, 2011 by Jack Clark

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