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Upgrading your servers can bring a wealth of improvements to your organization. Chief among them is the potential for significant performance boosts for your I/O-intensive applications and workloads. Although IOPS is not an explicit measure of a single kind of performance, it does indicate the level of user requests that the server can handle. Based on the IOPS output we saw in our testing, upgrading from previous-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 servers to the latest-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge R650 servers could help your organization expand its user base or deliver performance gains for I/O-intensive applications. In all three RAID configurations we tested, the PowerEdge R650 with NVMe SSDs delivered more IOPS than the previous generation server. Figure 1 shows how many average IOPS each solution handled during RAID 10 configuration testing.
Figure 2 shows the average IOPS each solution handled during the RAID 6 and RAID 5 configuration testing.
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