https://community.emc.com/thread/148025 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Performance Calculations on Clariion/VNX ###################################################### The magic word in performance discussions is "IOps".

1 IOps is 1 "input or outpu t operation per second". A rule of thumb EMC uses is that a single disk rotating at 15k RPM can handle 18 0 IOps, a 10k disk can handle about 140 IOps, a 7200 RPM disk can do 80 and a power efficient 5400 RPM drive can only do 40 IOps. An EFD (flash drive or SSD) can handle 2500 IOps. As said, this is a rule of thumb based on small random (4kB) blocks. When the blocksize increases the number of IOps will go down, but the amount of MBps goes up. When the blocksize decreases the amount of IOps goes up and the amount of MBps g oes down.