> IOPS are not throughput at all Yes, it is. You're thinking of "bandwidth"; the terms "throughput" and "bandwidth" are not interchangeable. IOPS and bandwidth

> IOPS are not throughput at all Yes, it is. You're thinking of "bandwidth"; the terms "throughput" and "bandwidth" are not interchangeable. IOPS and bandwidth are two different forms of throughput: the former has number of operations in the numerator, the latter has bytes.