I wish articles like this could afford production-grade hardware to test on. When you’ve run large Fibre or SAS arrays in the past on enterprise hardware it’s h

I wish articles like this could afford production-grade hardware to test on. When you’ve run large Fibre or SAS arrays in the past on enterprise hardware it’s hard not to see gaps in the testing methods/setup. Sequential writes metrics ARE important when doing database backups. SATA (even nearline) and SAS disks have vastly different performance profiles so I would expect optimal configuration would be different. What about SSD vs. spinning? What about different rotational speeds? Were the disks aligned properly? How does performance scale with increasing the number of threads requesting I/O? The setup in the article really only applies to certain prosumer/small business requirements. I guess I’m not the right audience for the article.