Recently at work, we’ve started a request for proposal (RFP) process to purchase new SAN storage space. There was something that struck me about one proposal from Lefthand Networks involving their NSM160 platform (which they weren’t pitching at this proposal). We have several NSM160’s in our datacenter and one stat that they threw out there was the max IOPS number: 30,000. I do realize that they have at some lab somewhere running the absolute perfect test they have achieved this speed.