Friday, September 10, 2010

SD Card (Secure Digital Card)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital

A non-volatile memory card format for use in portable devices.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

IOPS (Input/Output Operation Per Second)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOPS

A common benchmark for drives and other computer storage devices.  Can be measured with Iometer (Intel), IOzone and FIO.

Common performance characteristics:
  • Total IOPS
  • Random Read IOPS
  • Random Write IOPS
  • Sequential Read IOPS
  • Sequential Write IOPS

Tuesday, September 7, 2010