Well, I'm more accustomed to  "sequential vs. random", but YMMW.

As to 67000 512 byte writes (this sounds suspiciously close to 32Mb fitting
into cache), did you have write-back enabled?

Regards,
Andrey



On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Arne Jansen <sensi...@gmx.net> wrote:

> Andrey Kuzmin wrote:
>
>  On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Arne Jansen <sensi...@gmx.net <mailto:
>> sensi...@gmx.net>> wrote:
>>
>>    Andrey Kuzmin wrote:
>>
>>        As to your results, it sounds almost too good to be true. As Bob
>>        has pointed out, h/w design targeted hundreds IOPS, and it was
>>        hard to believe it can scale 100x. Fantastic.
>>
>>
>>    Hundreds IOPS is not quite true, even with hard drives. I just tested
>>    a Hitachi 15k drive and it handles 67000 512 byte linear write/s, cache
>>
>>
>> Linear? May be sequential?
>>
>
> Aren't these synonyms? linear as opposed to random.
>
>
>
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