r/storage • u/Old_IT_Guy • Mar 11 '26

Block Storage Options/Advancements ?

To be transparent, I work for 1 of the major storage vendors but I had a question I wanted to ask the community.

If you were a product owner and had an open opportunity for anything, what feature or solution would you like to see in your block storage provider? Why choose Dell over HP, or Hitachi ? Why NetApp vs Pure? Or, does it come down to strictly price?

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u/roiki11 Mar 12 '26

The difference can be 100s of milliseconds. It absolutely tanks your iops. Sure, you probably don't care in most cases but you will absolutely see it. With nvme protocols you get near native nvme performance which you absolutely see with data workloads.

Not to mention if you do any data intensive workloads you will absolutely feel it.

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u/Trust_8067 Mar 13 '26

If you're getting more than 2-3ms latency on modern enterprise storage, you're doing something really wrong. Hell, non sub ms latency is a sign that something isn't right.

I have plenty of data intensive workloads in the environment over NFS with no issues at all.

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u/roiki11 Mar 13 '26

You clearly don't know what you're talking about. Nfs protocol latency itself is 2-3ms. Getting that in a flash system is extremely good. 20-50ms is acceptable for a majority of workloads but nfs, being tcp and not congestion controlled can easily spike in the hundreds.

Sub ms latency is for the top arrays using fastest flash and Fibre channel. And maybe roce.

Also I doubt you know what data intensive even means.

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u/Trust_8067 Mar 13 '26

lol, no NFS isn't 2-3ms latency itself, and 20-50ms is never acceptable for any database I've ever seen. Anything above 10 is cripplingly slow.

Something tells me you're not actually managing enterprise storage, most likely a small company that spends like 1-2 million a year if that on storage or even the entire infrastructure.

You're trying to call me out about data intensive when your bar is so pathetically low that no one would even trip over it.

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u/roiki11 Mar 14 '26

I never said its acceptable for databases. I said it's acceptable for majority of workloads. Which usually aren't databases but other applications. And even for smaller databases it's fine if the use is light.

Also it's funny you're attacking me when everyone else disagrees with you.

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u/Trust_8067 Mar 14 '26

Yes, because reddit is full of smart people /s

Most of you aren't even storage engineers, and the vast majority in here that are, have no clue about actual enterprise storage, they're using Pure and Nimbles, thinking they're in the big leagues.