General Purpose: home directories and general file-sharing environments. Low latency and all-round performance. A file system can support up to 35,000 file operations per second but in General Purpose performance mode, read and write operations consume a different number of file operations. (Read = 1 file operation while write/update = 5 file operations).

Max I/O: offers virtually unlimited amounts of throughput and IOPs, but file operation latency is higher.