Figure 5. Large Sequential Write Performance; Figure 6. Large Sequential Read Performance - Dell PowerEdge EL Manual

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Figure 6 shows the results of the sequential read tests. The aggregate throughput achieved when a
number of clients are simultaneously reading files is plotted on the graph. The figures show the peak
read throughput for the baseline is ~2,500 MiB/s. With the DFC configuration, reads are 13% to 60%
Figure 5. Large sequential write performance
Sequential writes
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Figure 6. Large sequential read performance
Sequential reads
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