M3 2VCPU 16GB by DigitalOcean


I/O rate testing are conducted with local and block storages attached to the instance. We use the well-known open-source tool FIO. To express IOPS the following parameters are used:

  • 4K block
  • Random access
  • No filesystem (except for write access with root volume)
  • Avoidance of cache and buffer
Specifications:
CPU
2
RAM
16.0 GB
Root
150 GB Root SSD

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Root SSD

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Average 104765 2046
Deviation 15105.35 528.43
Min 71023 1034