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- BlackJackJester, on 09/05/2008, -3/+41maybe I'm out of the loop, but I don't think "Input/Output" is a unit of measurement.
- sockpuppets, on 09/05/2008, -1/+20What are you, the only person in the world that doesn't watch porn?
- IllBeBack, on 09/05/2008, -1/+20Porn isn't sick. Sexual repression and fear of all things sex-related is sick.
- sbcea, on 09/05/2008, -4/+22 The results have profound implications, especially for individuals who rely on mass amounts of porn for entertainment.... ;)
- Rikkochet, on 09/05/2008, -1/+14Nono, he's voting for vomit fetish porn.
I think. - inactive, on 09/05/2008, -0/+13if porn is sick, i don't wanna get well
- xptweakerntn, on 09/05/2008, -3/+14Finally. Something fast enough for me to use. Wait a minute....wait a minute....this'll never work! When was the last time anyone reached USB 2.0's top speed?
- fireballfreddy, on 09/05/2008, -0/+11Ok, for everyone who is complaining about not knowing the unit of measurement, IOPS are described here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOPS
And the benchmark they used (SPC-1) is described on the Storage Performance Council website:
http://www.storageperformance.org/home
Despite the above comments, this is industry-standard stuff. - LiquidIse, on 09/05/2008, -0/+10In related news, Ferrari will be releasing a new supercar that goes 250 ignitions per hour.
- DutchGuilder, on 09/05/2008, -0/+9IOPS = I/Os per second. An I/O is the cycle to seek to a location on a disk, read data, seek to a different location on the disk, then write data (usually measured in 4 or 8 KB chunks). The seek times are the slowest part of a mechanical drive. In large business systems, the database is always the bottleneck, and with properly tuned databases the disk I/O is the largest bottleneck, hence businesses are willing to pay large $$$ to get large IOPS.
To get into the 100,000's of IOPS (think how many database queries a credit card company processes per second) you have to write a very big cheque to IBM, or EMC, HP and allocate lots of expensive space in an expensive data center staffed with expensive people. - IllBeBack, on 09/05/2008, -5/+14"1 million Input/Output (I/O) per second"
Uhhh, what does that even mean?
My new hard drive does 1 million porn sites per second. Now THAT would be fast! - megaton, on 09/05/2008, -1/+10Since we're talking about digital technology, if we assume 1 input or 1 output is a bit, then we'd be talking about a throughput of about 125KB/s.
That's pretty a healthy transfer rate. For 1975. - sevenalive, on 09/05/2008, -2/+10Your a ***** moron, like all of the other crysis ***** *****.
If your computer has a Core 2, 4gb, and nvidia 8800+ or eqv. then it will ***** run crysis. If you can't run crysis, its time to get another computer.
***** STOP WITH THE ***** OLD ***** CRYSIS ***** ALREADY.
*i am in a bad mood today, sorry* - redfred18t, on 09/05/2008, -0/+5By Steve Jobs
- SkippyDoorknob, on 09/05/2008, -0/+51 million teddy bears per rainbow
- IllBeBack, on 09/05/2008, -0/+4I was trying (failing) to point out that the word "operations" was missing.
1 million Input/Output (I/O) [OPERATIONS] per second"
whoosh. sorry. - greenlight2001, on 09/05/2008, -0/+4I often fap at 36 Jennifer Connellys per second.
- RefriedBeams, on 09/05/2008, -0/+4How can the engineers be in England and California? Is this the Heisenberg Institute?
- caracter2, on 09/05/2008, -0/+4Usain Bolt's courier services will get your data where it needs to go in half that time.
- fireballfreddy, on 09/05/2008, -0/+3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOPS
It's pretty standard. As is the test that was run (SPC-1) which is described on the Storage Performance Council website:
http://www.storageperformance.org/home - arunforce, on 09/05/2008, -0/+3Well *****, they could release everything they discover instantly. But then they would break down after a couple days, just like every other Chinese good.
It's called research and development. They have to find the best working order for the product. Just because they discovered this, doesn't mean there isn't room for optimization.
Unless you want to buy a new version every 2 months. - DutchGuilder, on 09/06/2008, -0/+2> I believe "Seek Time", which is the inverse of IOPS, is the standard term...
"Seek time" is for single disks. IOPS is for entire storage subsystems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOPS - Wargasmic, on 09/06/2008, -2/+4Somebody can't run Crysis....
- enantiodromia, on 09/06/2008, -0/+2oh ok, you mean the function that RAM currently serves, not how the device technically works.
for now, hard drive space is way way cheaper than solid state, so it will take quite a while to lose HDD altogether.
example, as i typed my first comment, I was opening a box full of $8,500 160G solid-state SAS drives - inactive, on 09/05/2008, -0/+2http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxq8-ehG5jE&feature= ...
- abrasion, on 09/06/2008, -0/+2You son of a bitch, next time I jerk off I'm going to be focusing more on my hand movement speed than the porn and lose my train of thought,... *****!
- drbonemonkey, on 09/05/2008, -0/+2Computer technology is growing so bloody fast its ridiculous. I wonder what one of these hard drives are going to cost when they go public.
- uberkuh, on 09/06/2008, -0/+2Oh, it's like a megapixel.
- thecheatah, on 09/06/2008, -0/+2Holly *****! reALLLY?
- sn0wkitty, on 09/05/2008, -0/+2Yep, it's true - as we humans can't yet decipher the complex language of the Speeds, we can't even begin to comprehend what they were talking about.
- Aeric, on 09/06/2008, -0/+2...So prepare to upgrade in two months
- zadadka, on 09/05/2008, -0/+2The inference seems to be that this is currently suited to extremely high frequency but low data-sized writes (as kangy3 points out), such as SQL/Oracle and similar ...or perhaps better databases (of which I have less experience)...?
@xpteaterxtn ...USB2 is rated for some 55Mb+ per second....USB3 will offer around 500Mb/sec... I do overnight backups of some of my servers to USB2 connected SATAs (via IcyBox)... I've never had a disk-write failure issue, and I've measured consistent 40-45Mb/sec transfers...which has been ample.
With multi-Terrabyte disks beginning to become "standard issue kit" in the corporate environment, it is important for transfer speeds (and, again, disk-write speeds) to allow such enormous volumes to be coped with in terms of backup capability...and until "crystal" or "cyborg-synapse" (or whatever, etc) storage actually comes to fruition, the Hursley/Amaden success seems the next interim step for Moore's Law.
As fireballfreddy suggests, this is industry standard stuff....slightly pushing the envelope today, but will be old-hat in 5-years time. - 1ncu3us, on 09/05/2008, -0/+2I guess what I was getting at, was that our hard drives and RAM will soon be the same device
- HeroicLife, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1Uh, the test was of an actual IBM product:
http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmar ...
So it's available now/very soon. - groo68, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1ram is still useful as a safety net, so the original file is less likely to get corrupted, but maybe this wont be considered once there is 500gb ram/solid state drives.
- DutchGuilder, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1Current RAID controllers actually choke on SSDs and will need to be redesigned for the higher I/O rates.
Here is a one "drive" that does 120K IOPS: http://fusionio.com/products.aspx - zadadka, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1RAM is largely irrelevant in this scenario...whilst the RAM might cope withe the I/O exchanges, it's the speed of
disk writes that are important....latency here means data loss.
Any MS Exchange admin can tell you that. - Mocib, on 09/06/2008, -0/+1This article failed to mention that the Flash technology comes from Fusion-io.
http://www.fusionio.com
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10028216-64.html - Tartooob, on 09/06/2008, -0/+1But, will it blend ?
- ell0bo, on 09/06/2008, -0/+1My wrist can't possibly move that fast...
- SiXiam, on 09/06/2008, -0/+1Update: USER: dsmx is already gone...
- mfingers, on 09/06/2008, -0/+1640KB ought to be enough for anyone
- BlackJackJester, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1I believe "Seek Time", which is the inverse of IOPS, is the standard term...
- PueSi, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1Good news, any improvement in the speed of storage devices is welcomed.
It sucks that in this day and age storage devices are still lagging in speed and latency. - Buelldozer, on 09/06/2008, -0/+1Excellent! It's good to see that they're already working on the hardware to run Windows 7.
- thecheatah, on 09/06/2008, -1/+2Dude I have the setup your talking about except mine is a quadcore xeon. I tried running crysis. It ran really smooth without anti-aliasing and at a high res, but sucked with aa on. So UR WRONG.
PS: I guess ur right since at high res, aa really isnt noticeable. But sadly I can still notice it :-. I am looking at you grand turismo prologue. -
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