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Tuesday Jan 23, 2007
Sun StorageTek 6540 (Mirroring) has set World Record $/performance on SPC-2 benchmark.
The power of this mid-range product coupled with our 4Gb HBAs has demonstrated industry leading SPC-2 benchmarking capabilities.
- Sun StorageTek 6540 has World Record $/performance of $95.42
- Sun StorageTek 6540 has best-in-class performance of 1,317.55 SPC-2 MBPS
- First product to break the $100 price/performance barrier.
- Sun achieved this result using a Mirroring storage configuration to protect all data against disk failures. Outside of Sun's prior submissions all other competitors used the same data protection showing an apples-to-apples comparison. Sun's StorageTek 6540 submissions can suffer a disk failure without incurring a lengthy service outage, during which time a full rollforward recovery from a backup must be performed just like the.
SPC-2 Performance Chart (in increasing price-performance order)
SPC-2 MBPS = the Performance Metric
$/SPC-2 MBPS = the Price/Performance Metric
ASU Capacity = the Capacity Metric
TSC Price = Total Cost of Ownership Metric
Data Protection = Data Protection Metric (RAID 0, Mirroring, RAID 5, other)
Results Identifier = A unique identification of the result metric
Currently no other competitors have report results in this space.
| Sponsor | System | SPC-2 MBPS | $/SPC-2 MBPS | ASU Cap. (GB) | TSC Price | Data Protection Level | Pub. Date | Results Ident. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | StorageTek | 1317.55 | $95.42 | 2,233.383 | $125,719.00 | Mirroring | 1/18/06 | B00014 |
Complete SPC-2 benchmark results may be found at http://www.storageperformance.org.
Benchmark Description
The SPC Benchmark-2™ (SPC-2) is a series of related benchmark performance tests that simulate the sequential component of demands placed upon on-line, non-volatile storage in server class computer systems. SPC-2 provides measurements in support of real world environments characterized by:
- Large numbers of concurrent sequential transfers.
- Demanding data rate requirements, including requirements for real time processing.
- Diverse application techniques for sequential processing.
- Substantial storage capacity requirements.
- Data persistence requirements to ensure preservation of data without corruption or loss.
Disclosure Statement:
Sun StorageTek 6540 1317.55 SPC-2 MBPS, $/SPC-2 MBPS $95.42, ASU Capacity 2,233.383GB, Protect MIRRORING, Cost $125,719.00, Ident. B00014. SPC-2, SPC-2 MBPS, $/SPC-2 MBPS are regular trademarks of Storage Performance Council (SPC). More info www.storageperformance.org
Sun StorageTek 6540 SPC-2 Executive Summary (6 pages): Acrobat PDF
Complete Sun StorageTek 6540 SPC-2 Full Disclosure Report: Acrobat PDF
Results Summary
| Certified Results | |||
| System: | Sun StorageTek 6540, 2 controllers (4GB cache total, 2GB each), 64 72GB 15K RPM FC drives, 8 4Gb front-end ports, 4 4Gb back-end ports | ||
| Performance: | 1317.55 SPC-2 MBPS | ||
| Price/performance: | $95.42 $/SPC-2 MBPS | ||
| ASU Capacity: | 2,233.383 GB | ||
| Data Protection Level: | Mirroring | ||
| TSC Price: | $125,719.00 | ||
| Results Identifier: | B00014 | ||
| Server: | Sun Fire E6900, 24 1.2GHz processors, 48GB memory, 8 4Gb HBAs | ||
| Operating System: | Solaris 10, update 2 | ||
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