Quote Originally Posted by Anvil View Post
It won't be a real life test and 4KB is rather small by today's standards, 8KB is about the smallest there is for the typical database (Oracle, MS-SQL) on top of this, there is a *lot* of sequential writes.
(there are of course other workloads besides databases but they will most likely have a much larger block size)

I'll make some options on how to write, 4KB, 8KB, ..., as well as more options on size. (including full span)

This type of test is highly unlikely in any environment though.

We already know what Intel data-sheets tells.

100% 4KB writes, 100% span.
G2
80GB = 7.5TB
160GB = 15TB

G3
40GB = 5TB
80GB = 10TB
120GB = 15TB
160GB = 15TB
300GB = 30TB
600GB = 60TB
See, this completely puts the 30GB number for the 300GB 320 in context -- the article I read didn't mention anything like that. I wasn't even aware that Intel used the 4K full span method to rate their drives.

Now I feel extra, extra stupid.