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Most of the enthusiast scene has become wildly familiar with FutureMark benchmarking products. They are the famed creators of the 3DMark suite and the PCMark suite. PCMark 05 benchmarks these drives and gives useful information about their performance; providing information about performance in Windows XP Startup, Application Loading, Virus Scanning, File Writing, and General usage.
The next test, Iometer, was added to benchmark the multi user environment and simply stated; it is both a workload generator and a measurement tool. Iometer measures performance under a controlled load measuring I/Os at varying depths. Iometer will be used with two of the better known scenarios, the File Server and Database patterns. A lot of information can be extrapolated from this such as Total MB/s, Average I/O Response times, and more. The patterns of File Server and Database will be run at a depth of 1 - 128 I/Os in a doubling fashion (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, and 128).
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