"Will" wrote in message
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"Nut Cracker" wrote in message
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"Will" wrote in message
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IOMeter is targeted at testing and benchmarking locally attached
drives.
I'm focused on multi-user performance of Microsoft file shares over the
network.

I have to disagree. I have used IOMeter to test SAN attached drives on
Hitatchi, StorageWorks, and EMC. Setup one worker process per CPU, what
its
read/write policy is, how long you want it to run ... and yer in
business.

Right, I should have said it is targeted at testing block-level
performance
of locally or SAN-mounted drives.


it tests by reading and writing to a file on a formatted drive .... so I
dont really think its a disk-block/sector-level tool.

- LC