1 Overview 1
2 Introduction 4
2.1 Hardware Configuration 5
3 Device Internals Performance 6
3.1 System Memory Bus Throughput 6
3.2 SCSI and PCI bus Throughput 6
3.3 IDE controller and Throughput 6
3.4 Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) 8
3.5 DMA vs. PIO 10
4 Testing Methodology 11
4.1 Throughput measurement 11
4.2 Overhead Measurement 12
4.3 Zoned Disk and Variable Media Rates 13
4.4 File Pre-allocation 13
5 NT4SP6 vs. NT4SP3 Sequential IO Performance 15
6 Windows 2000 vs. NT4 20
7 Windows 2000 SCSI I/O Performance 23
7.1 Windows 2000 SCSI Random I/O 23
7.3 Windows 2000 Out-of-the-Box Sequential Buffered SCSI Throughput 26
7.4 Windows 2000 Unbuffered Sequential SCSI Throughput 28
7.5 Windows 2000 Multiple SCSI Disk Performance 30
8 Windows 2000 IDE I/O Performance 33
8.1 Windows 2000 IDE Random I/O 33
8.3 Windows 2000 Out-of-the-box Sequential Buffered IDE Throughput 37
8.5 Windows 2000 Sequential Unbuffered IDE Throughput 39
8.6 Windows 2000 Multiple IDE Disk Performance 41
9 Network IO Performance 48
11 Summary 52
12 Acknowledgements 53
13 References 53
