hIOmon SSD Performance Monitor - Understanding desktop usage patterns.

[Ao1]

I got excited by what hIOmon could do so admittedly I rushed in a bit A bit of methodology is now in order

First here are the specs for my SSD:

• Sustained Sequential Read: up to 250MB/s
• Sustained Sequential Write: up to 100MB/s
• Read latency •65 microseconds
• Write latency •85 microseconds
• Random 4KB Reads: up to 35,000 IOPS
• Random 4KB Writes: 160GB X25/X18-M: up to 8,600 IOPS

What would I really like to know? Primarily I'm trying to understanding how well my SSD performs in relationship to my typical desktop use. Is it adequate or could it be faster. What needs to be faster? This raises 4 questions for me, although maybe they are not the right questions.

1. How much am I utilising the available max sequential read/ write speeds overall?
(From what I've seen so far it would seem that read speeds are underutilised but, surprisingly for me, maybe faster sequential writes would speed things up (?) If I've got that wrong what is the best way to find that out?)

2. How much am I utilising the max sequential read speeds for loading a game? What is limiting the max MB/s read speed?

3. Would an increase in IOPS capability give me any advantage?

4. Would an SSD raid 0 array improve responsiveness and make my apps work faster in comparison to a single SSD?

Building a SSD raid 0 array is possible, but it's going to be loads of work as the other drive I have is only 80GB so I could not use an image and therefore I'd have to install everything from scratch. (Not to mention my wife is currently using it).

Somehow I don't think that it would be necessary anyway with hIOmon