(Input/Output Operations Per Second, pronounced eye-ops) - a common performance measurement used to benchmark computer storage devices like hard disk drives.

IOPS (input/output operations per second) is the standard unit of measurement for the maximum number of reads and writes to non-contiguous storage locations. I/O requests are requests from Public Cloud and Dedicated and Metered Performance Cloud virtual machines to their persistent storage volume. An I/O request occurs each time a process reads or [..]

Input/Output Operations Per Second, pronounced "eye-ops." This is unit of measurement used to describe the maximum number of reads and writes to a disk or storage area.