HDD - Getting More IOPS

• The IOPS problem is harder - when we deal with random access.
• Here, using 10 disks will give us only ~1250 IOPS.
• So we aggregate hundreds of disks - but then we get too much capacity.
• Which means that to get high IOPS we use a very small part of the storage capacity
• which is wasteful in purchase price, cooling needs, and floor space.

Originally written by guy keren