We run a variety of benchmark tools in the course of our lab validation tests. We were curious about the actual data that these tools write in their respective data files, so we decided to look inside these files, and share that data. Having knowledge of the data written by these benchmark tools can help decide which tool to use for certain types of tests. This data has implications for compression and data de-duplication. It may also have other implications.
We have included some popular benchmark tools such as IOmeter, SQLIO and VDbench in this first report. Other benchmark tools will be added in the future.
The complete report is available on the Demartek web site.