FusionIO SLC IOdrive Benchmarks

[One_Hertz]

Just finished flashing latest firmware. WOW.

[One_Hertz]

I believe this is faster at winsat in every category except max latency than 6x Acard on ICH10R

[Anvil]

Exceptional performance at QD1

Random 16KB read is faster than 64KB sequential read

A few IOmeter runs would be great.
4KB random read QD1 through 8 in particular.

Also, checking for 512B vs 4KB aligned read speed would be interesting. (@QD32)

[One_Hertz]

Here is vantage. IOMeter next.

[One_Hertz]

I am not going to screenshot every IOMeter config because that is just a waste of time.

4KB 100% read 100% random 1 worker:

1 queue - 24557 IOPs
2 queue - 46826 IOPs
3 queue - 61824 IOPs
4 queue - 68764 IOPs
5 queue - 70786 IOPs
6 queue - 70906 IOPs
12 queue - 70840 IOPs
18 queue - 84567 IOPs
24 queue - 114701 IOPs
32 queue - 120555 IOPs

512 bytes 100% read 100% random 1 queue (real access time check) - 27916 IOPs or 0.0356ms

edit: I hate myself for not buying this for 3k when it first came out in 2008. This is A LOT faster than my 4x X25-Es.

[Dragoonseal]

Sexy!

How's it feel it normal use?

[zalbard]

Woah, now that's what I call fast...

[tiro_uspsss]

edit: I hate myself for not buying this for 3k when it first came out in 2008. This is A LOT faster than my 4x X25-Es.

interesting statement noted

this thing isnt bottable is it?
how much did u pay again?

[One_Hertz]

interesting statement noted

this thing isnt bottable is it?
how much did u pay again?

No, not bootable. Only paid 1500 for it off ebay. The thing was brand new never used. I think I paid 1500 total for my X25-Es as well. 1000 for the first two, and 500 for the other two (got the second pair used).

From all the tests i've ran the iodrive is like a next step up from normal SSD...

Naturally, the game loading times only dropped by a bit since those are mostly CPU limited. Around 1 second on 7 second times. L4D went from about 7.5 on X25 to 6.5 on iodrive (with a system reboot between each test). Other games show similar improvements.

I am quite happy with this iodrive. I do not see anything using a SATA cable beating this for a very long time.

[tiro_uspsss]

No, not bootable. Only paid 1500 for it off ebay. The thing was brand new never used. I think I paid 1500 total for my X25-Es as well. 1000 for the first two, and 500 for the other two (got the second paid used).

From all the tests i've ran the iodrive is like a next step up from normal SSD...

Naturally, the game loading times only dropped by a bit since those are mostly CPU limited. Around 1 second on 7 second times. L4D went from about 7.5 on X25 to 6.5 on iodrive (with a system reboot between each test). Other games show similar improvements.

I am quite happy with this iodrive. I do not see anything using a SATA cable beating this for a very long time.

niiiiiice

[alfaunits]

Have you got those X25-Es in R0? Just for fun, could you try how fast a file copy from one to the other takes? (both directions)
TC->Big file copy would be most precise.

I was among the first (well company was...) to get this back in 2008. They f***ing took waaay too long to get it released, that it wasn't really available in 2008! We got our money back, and decided to go with X25-Es x4. Maybe stuff that runs on IoDrive is faster, but we saved considerable time not waiting for IoDrive (it's the same as getting a car/house via credit or saving up and buying it - in the end, Credit costs more, but you get to use the car/house all those years as well)

[eva2000]

wow nice, i know a few clients of mine would love one of these for mysql database servers

[Ao1]

Wow That is the fastest run time I’ve seen. (WEI) The performance/ $ cost ratio makes this a really good buy. Incredible for a single device. Are you seeing any degradation?

[zalbard]

Are you seeing any degradation?

I'd like to know, also.
Does it actually support TRIM? I really have no idea...

[One_Hertz]

Have you got those X25-Es in R0? Just for fun, could you try how fast a file copy from one to the other takes? (both directions)
TC->Big file copy would be most precise.

I was among the first (well company was...) to get this back in 2008. They f***ing took waaay too long to get it released, that it wasn't really available in 2008! We got our money back, and decided to go with X25-Es x4. Maybe stuff that runs on IoDrive is faster, but we saved considerable time not waiting for IoDrive (it's the same as getting a car/house via credit or saving up and buying it - in the end, Credit costs more, but you get to use the car/house all those years as well)

Copying between my two arrays is one of the first things I did haha. It goes between 450 and 520mb/s. Seems to be the same in both directions. Windows limitation?

Wow That is the fastest run time I’ve seen. (WEI) The performance/ $ cost ratio makes this a really good buy. Incredible for a single device. Are you seeing any degradation?

No degradation yet. I've written 200GB to the device (there is a handy tracking tool for read/written GB in the software) and AS SSD numbers + iometer reads look identical thus far. I have not tested writes properly however. Looks like it has very good garbage collection. No, there is no trim on the device but secure erase can be done with one button through software and it is very quick. The plan is to hammer it with 100+gb of 4kb random writes and then see how it performs after.

By the way, I tested this specifically, and the ram does not temporarily boost any figures. All the performance values are 100% sustainable. No cache no nothing.

All the reviews for the device on the net are old. There have been several firmware and software updates since then which increased performance. I was NOT expecting such crazy low QD performance and 0.35ms access times...

[F@32]

I'd like to know, also.
Does it actually support TRIM? I really have no idea...

Don't think SLC need TRIM...

[lowfat]

I wouldn't trust the tool that tracks data usage in the ioAdministratior. Pretty sure it is not even close to being correct. It says I have written something like 20TB to my ioXtreme and I almost never write to it.

When my board gets back from RMA, I'll post a few ioXtreme benches to compare against. I've been trying to buy another one somewhere but they are impossible to find.

Anyways welcome to the Fusion-IO crew.

[One_Hertz]

I wouldn't trust the tool that tracks data usage in the ioAdministratior. Pretty sure it is not even close to being correct. It says I have written something like 20TB to my ioXtreme and I almost never write to it.

Really? I tested it and it seemed to be spot on... Do you also have the performance monitor showing real time read/write MB/s and IOPs?

[alfaunits]

Copying between my two arrays is one of the first things I did haha. It goes between 450 and 520mb/s. Seems to be the same in both directions. Windows limitation?

I think it is some sort of PCI-e limitation. But I can't explain it, the numbers are not close to but just a bit over the limits to make sense.
I can't get any good copy speeds on my laptop, even though I got 5 SSDs connected via eSATA and on one internal slot. (100MB/s - forget it )

[Nizzen]

Wow That is the fastest run time I’ve seen. (WEI) The performance/ $ cost ratio makes this a really good buy. Incredible for a single device. Are you seeing any degradation?

Sorry, but Areca 1880 still kick ass

[NapalmV5]

I believe this is faster at winsat in every category except max latency than 6x Acard on ICH10R

No, not bootable. Only paid 1500 for it off ebay. The thing was brand new never used. I think I paid 1500 total for my X25-Es as well. 1000 for the first two, and 500 for the other two (got the second pair used).

From all the tests i've ran the iodrive is like a next step up from normal SSD...

Naturally, the game loading times only dropped by a bit since those are mostly CPU limited. Around 1 second on 7 second times. L4D went from about 7.5 on X25 to 6.5 on iodrive (with a system reboot between each test). Other games show similar improvements.

I am quite happy with this iodrive. I do not see anything using a SATA cable beating this for a very long time.

congratz on your slc iodrive acquisition 1hz

heres my areca 1231/2mb/4x x25e


oh and check my tubes for loading times metro 2033/lost planet 2

at the of metro 2033 vid you can see the whole system

[lowfat]

Sorry, but Areca 1880 still kick ass

Not in the queue depth 1 random reads it doesn't. That is where Fusion-IO devices shine.

My ioXtreme does 3x as much as your array.

> Disk Sequential 64.0 Read 935.00 MB/s 7.9
> Disk Random 16.0 Read 922.81 MB/s 7.9
> Responsiveness: Average IO Rate 0.42 ms/IO 7.9
> Responsiveness: Grouped IOs 7.67 units 7.6
> Responsiveness: Long IOs 1.79 units 7.9
> Responsiveness: Overall 13.76 units 7.9
> Responsiveness: PenaltyFactor 0.0
> Disk Sequential 64.0 Write 301.00 MB/s 7.7
> Average Read Time with Sequential Writes 0.194 ms 7.9
> Latency: 95th Percentile 1.701 ms 7.9
> Latency: Maximum 4.664 ms 7.9
> Average Read Time with Random Writes 0.229 ms 7.9
> Total Run Time 00:00:59.14

One_Hertz, have you tried increasing your PCIe frequency? I get huge benefits by increasing mine. I've went up to 110MHz before devices started to drop out on me.

[One_Hertz]

One_Hertz, have you tried increasing your PCIe frequency? I get huge benefits by increasing mine. I've went up to 110MHz before devices started to drop out on me.

Increasing that stuff can be dangerous and I don't have warranty on my toy. I wouldn't be surprised it is why your card died... I remember killing a GPU with like 115 pci-e two years back. I will try 105mhz and I also need to try the higher write performance formatting options.

Ignoring the people still benchmarking controller cache...

Napalm - nice vids. I've been wanting to play metro 2033 for a while now so I will probably buy it soon.

[Nizzen]

Not in the queue depth 1 random reads it doesn't. That is where Fusion-IO devices shine.

My ioXtreme does 3x as much as your array.

> Disk Sequential 64.0 Read 935.00 MB/s 7.9
> Disk Random 16.0 Read 922.81 MB/s 7.9
> Responsiveness: Average IO Rate 0.42 ms/IO 7.9
> Responsiveness: Grouped IOs 7.67 units 7.6
> Responsiveness: Long IOs 1.79 units 7.9
> Responsiveness: Overall 13.76 units 7.9
> Responsiveness: PenaltyFactor 0.0
> Disk Sequential 64.0 Write 301.00 MB/s 7.7
> Average Read Time with Sequential Writes 0.194 ms 7.9
> Latency: 95th Percentile 1.701 ms 7.9
> Latency: Maximum 4.664 ms 7.9
> Average Read Time with Random Writes 0.229 ms 7.9
> Total Run Time 00:00:59.14

One_Hertz, have you tried increasing your PCIe frequency? I get huge benefits by increasing mine. I've went up to 110MHz before devices started to drop out on me.

I used only ONE Crucial c300 128gb

FusionIO is fast on 1qd yes

[Ao1]

Hah, Credit Suisse are using it to speed up their trading. They will probably get their money back from it in millisonds as well.

"Credit Suisse says in this case the ioMemory will be used to speed up algorithmic trading, which is using powerful, super-fast computers to analyze and movements in the prices of stocks, bonds and other securities, and determining when to buy and sell, based on a pre-programmed set of rules and conditions. It’s a business where, as The Wall Street Journal’s Donna Kardos Yeslavich wrote in October, milliseconds count, so banks and other financial institutions are constantly on the lookout anything that can speed the process up."