What is IOPS: Definition and Usage. For those of you who are often involved in the world of storage, such as SSDs or HDDs, you must be familiar with the term input/output operations per second (IOPS) (pronounced “ai-ops”). IOPS is a form of measurement for storage performance, both hard disk drives (HDDs), solid-state drivers (SSDs), and storage area networks. The term IOPS is used to estimate how fast a storage can read and write data packets located in various places on the drive per second. While bytes are the benchmark for transfer speed, IOPS is used to measure the speed of storage performance. As a benchmark, IOPS is often compared to revolutions per minute (rpm) which is a measure to show the speed of rotation of the engine’s crankshaft or […]
