S 6VCPU 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
6
RAM
16.0 GB
Root
320 GB Root SSD

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Read Write
Max 7524 7312
Average 5446 4608
Deviation 600.57 1737.85
Min 5239 539

Root SSD

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Average 136392 870
Deviation 40501.05 185.42
Min 57066 495