A customer wants a new server to dedicate to its latest high-transaction Web app. Traffic on the current site is heavy and is expected to double in a year. What's needed is an accurate and reliable ...

iSCSI SAN tuning tip: Iometer, a performance test tool for tuning Windows environments, can also be used to tune performance in iSCSI SANs. Iometer lets you simulate a storage area network's (SAN) ...

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So I find myself working with a lot of home brew NAS boxes recently. The performance of these NAS boxes come in to question quite often. I'd like to learn how to use IOMeter in a smart and sane manner ...

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Given that I had only five active high-speed disks, a full performance test of the VNXe wasn’t really possible, but I wanted to make sure the unit wasn’t obviously subpar. (See the full review, “EMC ...

It's testing time. For our benchmarking of the 1U4500 we sought to find out if it can take a hammering, and also if there are any particular scenarios it might thrive in. We did our benchmarking with ...

For our Iometer test, we decided to test 4K random read and write workloads at 100 percent using all of the 1TB drive’s available storage space. We then applied a 10 percent over-provisioning on ...

Does anyone know the best way to test the pSLC cache size on an SSD? Tom's Hardware seems to be one of the few that reports on this in reviews, and they use IOmeter, but I can't figure out exactly how ...

Iometer is a powerful open source synthetic benchmarking tool, able to simulate the effects of a wide variety of software loads and circumstances on either individual hard disk drives and complete ...

For our Iometer test, we decided to test 4K random read and write workloads at 100 percent using all of the 1TB drive’s available storage space. We then applied a 10 percent over-provisioning on ...