FileServer and WebServer Patterns

File- and WebServer patterns allowed us to emulate the typical file- and webservers performance.

Two diagrams below show the integral performance ratings of the drive that were calculated as the average requests processing speed for all types of workload.

The emulation of the file-server workload showed that the performance results obtained for three different interfaces hardly vary. The hard drive runs just a little bit faster when it is connected via the FireWire 800 interface compared with what we see when it runs via FireWire 400. The performance drops a little more when we switch to USB 2.0.

When we emulate the web-server operation the situation is very similar again. FireWire 800 interface is the fastest, while FireWire 400 is falling just a little bit behind. The lowest results were obtained with USB 2.0 interface.