HP Data Protector Software Performance White Paper

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Creating millions of small files for Windows NTFS
The file system with millions of small files for Windows NTFS was created with file sizes
between 4 KB and 16 KB and the compressibility of the data 2:1. The utility created an equal
distribution of files in each directory.
Figure 19 illustrates the HPCreateData input parameters and results.
Figure 19. HPCreateData for Windows – creating small files
Finally, the file system contained 49.27 GB with 5,535,750 files in 7,380 folders.