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what is I/OPS?

1832vin
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i really don't get it, what is it for? how does it correlate with MB/s?

i know what does it stand for, i can web search, but i just really don't understand what is input/output?

a per instruction?

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

http://www.thessdreview.com/featured/ssd-throughput-latency-iopsexplained/

 

How often a storage device can perform IO tasks is measured in Input/Output Operations per Second (IOPS), and varies depending on the type of IO being done. The greater the number of IOPS, the better the performance.

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