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  • initialism Input/Output Operations Per Second, a common benchmark for harddisks and other computer storage media.
  • initialism International Organisation of Pension Supervisors, an independent international body representing those involved in the supervision of private pension arrangements.

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  • How will an order of magnitude improvement in IOPS change the art of the possible in customer-facing applications?

    The Solid-State Future 2009

  • For example, SanDisk showed the 240GB drive performing around 450 4KB random write IOPS, which is some 6x faster than traditional hard drives, according to the company.

    HEXUS.net : News 2009

  • Multiply that by 16, and you get 2,880,000 IOPS which is 500,000 less than the 2.3 million predicted by Oakgate.

    The Register Team Register 2010

  • Initial tests show a sustained throughput rate of 100,000 IOPS which is staggering considering that this is just a simple 4 core, nothing special server.

    Data Center Knowledge 2009

  • Solid-state disks will help us regain the balance between storage and compute, so CAPEX per IOPS may well decrease substantially.

    The Solid-State Future 2009

  • With 64 bit address spaces, why even have IOPS for persistent storage?

    The Solid-State Future 2009

  • Extreme Throughput -- many cloud storage providers shy away from high performance database storage altogether because of an inability to hit IOPS targets.

    Tony Greenberg: Key Cloud Migration Decisions Tony Greenberg 2011

  • Power consumption is lower with SSDs than with hard disks, so electricity costs per IOPS will also drop.

    The Solid-State Future 2009

  • Extreme Throughput -- many cloud storage providers shy away from high performance database storage altogether because of an inability to hit IOPS targets.

    Tony Greenberg: Key Cloud Migration Decisions Tony Greenberg 2011

  • Just as with the last storage discontinuity, total cost per IOPS will be much lower for SSDs relative to hard disks in many, if not most, cases.

    The Solid-State Future 2009

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