Custom N1 8 vCPU 16GB Intel Broadwell by Google Cloud

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

RAM

16.0 GB

400GB SSD Persistent Disk

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Max	15397	15398
Average	13935	13934
Deviation	663.57	653.39
Min	12380	13317