HPE STORESERV SPC-1 BENCHMARK RESULTS ARE IN - ALL PERFORMANCE, NONE OF THE PRICE

It looks like HPE’s all-flash StoreServ 8450 is blowing the competition out the water after some notable SPC-1 benchmark results.The SPC - 1 (Storage Performance Council) provides a source of comparative storage performance information that is objective, relevant, and verifiable. This benchmark is designed to be vendor/platform independent and are applicable across a broad range of storage configuration and topologies.

The results of the latest benchmark, released on March 8, 2016 demonstrated the BEST SPC-1 price/performance result among all participating external arrays (think Dell Storage SC4020, EMC VNX8000, X-IO ISE 920 G3 AFA, etc.), including all-flash arrays. Now noted as the most affordable external all-flash array on the planet, HPE’s StoreServ 8450 achieved a world-leading result of $0.23 SPC-1 $/IOPS.


Why is this impressive? The other top 10 external arrays averaged $0.47 SPC-1 $/IOPS.


The buck doesn’t stop there. The SPC-1’s Executive Summary (details included below) also reported a configuration price of $126,558.24 for the 8450, the lowest of the competition. And an SPC-1 IOPS of 545,164 at 0.80ms latency.


Check out the rest of the Executive Summary Below:

The following four charts and table document the various storage capacities used in the benchmark, and their relationships, as well as the storage utilization values required to be reported. 

 

 

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Response Time - Throughput Curve

The Response Time-Throughput Curve illustrates the Average Response Time (milliseconds) and I/O Request Throughput at 100%, 95%, 90%, 80%, 50%, and 10% of the workload level used to generage the SPC-1 IOPS metric.

The Average Response Time measured at the any of the above load points cannot exceed 30 milliseconds or the benchmark measurement is invalid. 

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Source: SPC BENCHMARK 1™ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY