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Huawei boasts about array that has reached a new low
... in $/IOPs on Storage Performance Council benchmark
China-based Huawei has posted a record-setting price/performance value in the SPC-2 benchmark.
This is a Storage Performance Council benchmark, which calculates overall array performance in throughput (MB/sec) and (discounted) price/performance terms. These two numbers are calculated from three component workloads: large file processing; large database query; and video-on-demand.
Huawei’s OceanStor 6800 v3 array (PDF) achieved 42.801.98 MB/sec of throughput with a $16.89 price/performance rating.
It is the third highest system in terms of throughput: EMC’s VMAX 400K achieved 55,643.78MB/sec with HPE’s StoreServ 20850* having top rank with 62,844.45 MB/sec. VMAX price/performance was $33.58 while HPE’s flier was a better, meaning lower, $19.93 – but Huawei’s OceanStor trumped that.
We have charted these SPC-2 results, with throughput on the horizontal axis and price/performance on the vertical axis:
The 6800 is a dual controller array and the test rig had 800 x 600GB 10K SAS disk drives in 32 disk enclosures. The physical storage capacity was 477,280.002GB of which 440,386.511GB was used. It was divided into 80 logical volumes and used a RAID 5 scheme.
For throughput, disk spindles rule, it seems.
In February a Huawei OceanStor 18800 v3 system set an SPC-1 benchmark record. ®
* The SPC-2 chart shows HPE having a 20840 StoreServ system as well as the 20850. The 20840 scored exactly the same result as the 20850.