The year 1956 marked the beginning of an era that would dynamically and dramatically alter the landscape of technology forever. It was in San Jose, Calif., where the first hard disk drive (HDD), ...

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Storage benchmarking—much like Wi-Fi benchmarking—is a widely misunderstood black art. Admins and enthusiasts have for decades been tempted to just “get the big number” by reading or writing a large ...

I just ran across this video from Sun Microsystems that demonstrates a source of disk latency that we usually don't think about. It's short and quite amusing. Take a look. But being the analyst that I ...

Moving the head takes a lot longer than waiting for the sector to come around. So low seek times (the time to move the head) are critical to good disk performance. Access time (time to find a sector) ...

IOPS, latency and throughput/bandwidth are all interconnected. IOPS = (Throughput / Block Size) * 1024 Throughput in MBps = (IOPS * Block Size) / 1024 I understand how to convert IOPS to throughput ...

Even Google and Amazon can’t process data instantly—here’s how to combat latency in your real-time application Despite all the advances we’ve seen in data processing and database technology, there is ...