What is pefromance?

[FreeBug]

Not to get all philosophical, but what specifically are we talking about when we talk performance? There are so many things in play when measuring performance that I don't know how to accurately gauge my systems performance.

I am mostly curious because I am preparing to split my HDD pool (8x6TB) between two servers, one onsite and one off, and one running a Xeon E3-1270 V-2/32GB system, the other an C2D E8400/8GB, both in RAIDz2. Obviously the latter breaks the 1GB/1TB rule by quite a bit, and while I'm certainly not claiming to be special, I did read the Hardware Recommendations after all ;), I can't help but think the role of each server should be considered when measuring performance. In my case the Xeon system is the primary server running a at least PLEX and possibly a webserver, while the C2D system will be for file backup and very light streaming to KODI only.

So, are we talking objective (benchmarks) or subjective (does it's intended task) performance?

 

[jgreco]

are we talking objective (benchmarks) or subjective (does it's intended task) performance?

Yes.

 

[HoneyBadger]

I did read the Hardware Recommendations after all ;)

Then you'd have seen the line about ECC memory, and that C2D is really a Xeon 3000-series, right? ;)

 

[anodos]

Yes.

I think he meant to use an 'exclusive or'. In which case, 'no'.

 

[jgreco]

I think he meant to use an 'exclusive or'. In which case, 'no'.

However, in what case might a no actually not be a no?

Okay, yeah, probably a good idea not to get all philosophical, as OP says.

 

[pirateghost]

I don't know what pefromance is either.

 

[AgedReason]

I don't know what pefromance is either.

I think it's when a relationship between two asthmatics gets hot n' heavy.