Performance of the Sun Storage 7310 and 7410

Roch Bourbonnais summarizes the performance data of the 7310 and the 7410 in “Compared Performance of Sun 7000 Unified Storage Array Line”:

The Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage Array delivers over 36000 of random 8K reads per second from a 400GB working set for great Mail application responsiveness. This corresponds to an entreprise of 100000 people with every employee accessing new data every 3.6 second consolidated on a single server.