Storage Economics
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Vendor Benchmark Report
Throughput, latency, and cost-efficiency benchmarks
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Vendor Benchmark Report

Throughput, latency, and cost-efficiency benchmarks

Performance Benchmarks

IBM vs competitors on the metrics that matter

Throughput (GB/s), latency (ms), IOPS, and $/TB efficiency — measured from the same canonical fact table as every economics view.

21 SOLUTIONS

Throughput Benchmark (GB/s)

Top solutions by aggregate bandwidth
085170255340Scale System6000Storage ScaleFlashSystemDS8000Storage CephDell PowerMaxSAN VolumeControllerPure FlashArrayStorage FusionNetApp AFF

Latency Benchmark (ms)

Lowest-latency solutions (lower is better)
00.250.50.751Pure FlashArrayFlashSystemStorage FusionDell PowerMaxNetApp AFFHitachi VSPAWS EBSSAN VolumeControllerHPE AlletraDS8000

Full Benchmark Matrix

Throughput, latency, IOPS, and cost efficiency per solution · best-in-column highlighted
SolutionVendorThroughput (GB/s)Latency (ms)IOPS$/TB Eff.Cost EfficiencyPerformanceOverall
Storage TapeIBM4——$0.02
100
26
63
Storage ProtectIBM209.08,000$0.02
62
5
34
Cloud Object StorageIBM22——$0.04
38
28
33
Scale System 6000IBM3401.590,000$0.73
2
60
31
Pure FlashArrayComp.260.3350,000$1.59
1
54
28
AWS S3Comp.10——$0.07
21
26
24
FlashSystemIBM520.4730,000$2.37
1
45
23
Azure BlobComp.8——$0.08
19
26
23
GCP Cloud StorageComp.6——$0.09
17
26
22
Storage FusionIBM240.4200,000$2.44
1
41
21
Dell PowerMaxComp.280.4400,000$3.42
0
42
21
NetApp AFFComp.240.5300,000$1.93
1
34
18
SAN Volume ControllerIBM280.6220,000$0.40
4
29
17
Hitachi VSPComp.240.5320,000$4.00
0
34
17
AWS EBSComp.200.5260,000$10.12
0
33
17
DS8000IBM400.9300,000$6.12
0
23
12
HPE AlletraComp.160.8150,000$3.13
0
21
11
Storage ScaleIBM642.3100,000$0.42
4
16
10
NetApp Files (Cloud)Comp.161.580,000$1.47
1
12
7
Storage CephIBM363.350,000$0.65
2
10
6
Storage DefenderIBM85.010,000$2.50
1
4
3
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