Can Distributed File Systems Outperform Local NVMe? A Deep Performance Evaluation
This article explains what a Distributed File System (DFS) is, outlines key evaluation criteria such as reliability, availability, performance, scalability, and then compares HDD and SSD performance, investigates whether DFS can surpass local NVMe in large‑IO workloads, and discusses user‑side, cluster‑level, and cache‑level performance assessment methods.
