"Leveraging Intel’s latest eight-core “Sandy Bridge” processor, the Pure Storage FA-400 now delivers up to 400 000 8K IOPs, effectively doubling the performance and capacity over FA-300 systems with up to 100TB of usable all-flash capacity. Unlike most competitors who quote 4K IOP vanity benchmarks, the FlashArray has been optimised to perform well across all IO sizes (512 byte to 128K and beyond) to meet the performance needs of a variety of workloads."

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all IO sizes

sounds like a very adjustable... IO (input out put)

Wonder where they come up with this idea, more importantly, how do they do it? Are they utilizing the IO high speed memory in the same fashion that e.Digital has patented?

To gain the performance, they have eliminated the practices that are the norm for rotating hard disk......that being, the virtual methods of data management.

IMO, they are.

Can anything be done about it?

Beats me. The problem would be a combination of Intels processor and the "Purity Operating Environment 3.0 software release with expanded capabilities and new advancements like CloudAssist support technology, ZeroSnap accelerated virtual machine (VM) cloning, always-on data-at-rest encryption and tighter integration with third-party applications."

doni