Wesley,

It means you will see and overall performance increase of about 300%.

IIRC the 959 has a 96mhz processor.  The 979 is a 180mhz processor.  So any one process should finish in half the time.  i.e. a job that takes 1 hour should finish in 30 minutes.

Of course this all depends on whether you have enough memory and I/O access.

I would hope that you would double or even quadruple the memory on the 979, up to 8GB.   As for I/O, the maximum effective I/O is 8 fw-scsi paths.

-Craig



"[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: I'm doing an analysis to possibly upgrade our production 959KS/100 system to a 979KS/200 and I see the performance metric chart that tells me we go from a 4.6 to 14.6. Does anyone have or know where I can get a general idea what the increase represents? for instance, does each whole number (like 4.0 to 5.0) represent a general percentage increase in performance? I know it varies from one shop to another, so I'm just looking for a general guideline or personal experience like a job that used to take 10 hours to run now only takes 7 hours. The "personal experience" part of this may not even be appropriate, in that the upgrades may not be close to the metrics I am looking at.
I know this may be a tough question to answer, but thought I'd at least give it a try. 
TIA!
Wesley Setree

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