These include, to name only a few: disk RPM, disk seek time, disk data-rate, back-end bus data bandwidth, front-end bus data bandwidth, the number of front-end and back-end buses, cache size, protocol time, IOPS rate (for cache hits), as well as vendor unique and incomparable benchmark or stress testing results that are utterly incomparable to any other vendor's stress test results.

The first priority of the Vayala search product is to keep disk seek counts to a minimum across the entire system, and cache information wherever possible.

They make the distinction between disk seek time at half that of IBM disks and