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We wanted to learn about the performance improvements companies could experience by configuring new servers with new drives from KIOXIA versus enterprise SATA drives. We tested a single-node Dell EMC PowerEdgeR740xd server with three different SSD types:
On each, we ran a read-intensive transactional database workload from Benchmark Factory for Databases® 8.0.1, which simulated purchases and sales at a brokerage firm. We tested the configurations with enterprise SATA and value SAS SSDs with hardware RAID 10 enabled. For the configuration with data center NVMe SSDs, we did not use hardware RAID because it is not available for NVMe drives in the current test configuration. (For more details about this approach, see Comparing apples to apples).
According to Quest software, Benchmark Factory allows you to “easily conduct database workload capture and replay, industry-standard benchmark testing and scalability testing.”6 For more information about Benchmark Factory for Databases, visit https://www.quest.com/products/ benchmark-factory/.
6 Benchmark Factory for Databases, accessed October 4, 2019, https://www.quest.com/products/benchmark-factory/.