There is more to architecting a storage solution than just determining the amount of space needed.

Some metrics that are valuable to understand are:

• Average number of IO operations per second
• Maximum number of IO operations per second
• Ratio of read to write operations per second
• What percentage of the operations are random versus sequential
• What size are the IO operations

Analyzing the above information, combined with other architectural review items, will help determine the ideal storage solution to best meet the performance needs and maximize the performance/cost value of the solution.

~Brad

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