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title: Tuxera Fusion SMB benchmark report
description: Tuxera Fusion SMB removes storage as a limiting factor by delivering shared, predictable, high-performance file access that scales with the workload. It lets teams reuse familiar tools and security models, while meeting the performance demands of modern AI at scale.
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# Your file-sharing layer is the bottleneck.Here's the data.

### We benchmarked Fusion SMB against Samba, NFSD, NFS Ganesha, and Windows Server on AI training, checkpointing, and high-throughput workloads. The report shows exactly where each one breaks.

 

**See how much throughput you're losing**  
FIO results at 100GbE, 200GbE, and 2×200GbE. At 2×200GbE: Fusion SMB hits 46.86 GB/s. Samba flatlines at 4.17.

**Find out if your storage can feed your GPUs**  
MLPerf 3D U-Net passing accelerator units across Samba, Ganesha, NFSD, and Fusion SMB. And a LLaMA3-8B checkpoint that takes 6.7 seconds on Fusion vs 28.1 on Samba.

 

**Calculate your 3-year savings**  
A real IBM Storage Scale deployment: four Fusion SMB nodes replaced eleven Samba nodes. Same 150 GB/s, 30–35% lower 3-year TCO.

 

 

### Tuxera Fusion SMB Benchmark Report Request

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