SO 4VCPU 32GB 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
4
RAM
32.0 GB
Root
600 GB Root SSD

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Read Write
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Average 8949 8334
Deviation 830.86 1524.41
Min 8247 1815

Root SSD

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Average 202517 3307
Deviation 68882.10 1711.05
Min 77245 1206