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by ralphw
Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:09 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: A (hopefully) quick question about disk block sizes
Replies: 5
Views: 4195

A (hopefully) quick question about disk block sizes

I have some old notes basically saying that for perfomance reasons, it's best to use 64k block sizes as much as possible. Is that still the recommended setting? I know there was some talk about a new release doing something with block sizes, so I just wanted to confirm. So, (as an example) for a sim...
by ralphw
Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:47 pm
Forum: StarWind NVMe-oF Initiator [+Free], Deduplication Analyzer, RDMA Performance Benchmark
Topic: Why did you buy StarWind and not its competitor?
Replies: 35
Views: 704594

Re: Why did you buy StarWind and not its competitor?

There was a few factors in our decision to go with your product for us and our clients. Performance was a big factor. This wasn't the only thing but the whitepaper you guys had with MS talking about the 1 million IOPS really dazzled my supervisors. :D Of course price came in to play. We deal with al...