It's IOPS - Not IOPs
By Tony Asaro on Jun 24, 2009 | In Storage | 4 feedbacks »
Many storage system vendors use a performance measurement known as I/O's Per Second and the acronym is IOPS. However, many people mistakenly represent it as IOPs. For some reason they make everything else caps except for the "S". The "S" actually stands for seconds and is not a pluralization of IOP - which would stand for I/O's Per - and that makes no sense. Just a pet peeve of mine 
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Pedant! I'm gonna drive my Ford Mercury to an ATM machine and then get some Mobil oil and a tank of LPG gas for the barbecue grill I just bought at the Wal-Mart store. Oh, and a SAN isn't a network.
I prefer saying "I/O's" anyway...
I prefer saying "I/O's" anyway...
06/24/09 @ 15:01
Comment from: Drones Pal [Visitor]
By the same argument, iSCSI is not a palindrome.
06/30/09 @ 10:17
Comment from: Tony Asaro [Member] 
Drones - interesting. My argument is that "s" isn't being used to pluralize IOP but actually stands for Seconds. iSCSI is an acronym but is being used as a word - like many acronyms - and is spelt the same way backwards and forwards. Can you explain why you believe that using the same argument iSCSI is not a palindrome.
06/30/09 @ 14:45
Comment from: Charlie Dellacona [Visitor]
This is a recurring annoyance. 25 years ago in the days of the super-minicomputers the same thing happened with Millions of Instructions Per Second (MIPS). The performance of Vax-11/780s was commonly described as "about a MIP" and its little brother 750 was "half a MIP"
I have actually heard people referring to things that happen two million times per second as "2 megahertz" but in the same conversation things half that frequently as "a megahert."
I have actually heard people referring to things that happen two million times per second as "2 megahertz" but in the same conversation things half that frequently as "a megahert."
07/29/09 @ 11:21
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