Intel AS/400 RISC Server - Manual (Page 237)

14.6.2.4 Virtual SCSI Bandwidth-Disk Scaling
Figure 4 shows a comparison of measured bandwidth while scaling disk drives with varying
block sizes of operations. Each of the network storage descriptions have a single network storage
space attached to them. The difference in the scaling of these tests is attributable to the
performance gain which can be achieved by adding disk drives and IO adapters. The figures
below include small (4k-64k) transactions and larger (128k) transactions.
Read Perform ance-Sm all Transactions
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Figure 4 The figures above show read and write performance for small (4k-64k) and large transactions (128k+). This
experiment shows that adding disk drives increases the throughput. A system with 45 disk drives will be able to transfer
approximately 3 times faster then a system with 15 disk drives. Notice 24-network storage descriptions were used in order
to achieve maximum performance.
IBM i 6.1 Performance Capabilities Reference - January/April/October 2008
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