- Useful for random workloads - Useless without latency figures! I/O’s come in all shape and sizes - Read or Write - Big or Small - Random or Sequential MB/sec = Megabytes per second - Useful for streaming/sequential workloads - Read or Write matters - Latency is less important Almost all Real World workloads are mixed - Read and write, random and sequential…….. Why we need to prove our results for Pure Workloads ? • It will give worse results for pure read and write.