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To: pirate_200 who wrote (5622)	12/12/2000 6:49:46 PM
From: pirate_200	Read Replies (2) of 10934

More on IP 4700 SFS Numbers If you look at these results, you see the following: - RAID not used. Apparently, the performance with RAID enabled is so horrendous that EMC decided not to submit the results. Note that they use a RAID controller (an extra piece of hardware which includes yet another processor) and still the performance is so lousy they choose not to submit it. Actually, 2 RAID controllers and 155 disks. - The load generators, the clients that are used to generate the numbers versus the server were 4-processor Sun systems, each with 4 gigabytes of memory. Apparently, EMC loaded these clients with memory and processors to try to get the clients individual numbers as low as possible (yes, benchmarks are suppose to be client neutral, but this isn't true, this can have an affect on the overall results). It would be interesting to see NTAP's marketing response to these numbers because they seem absolutely horrible to me.

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