n1-highmem-2 Intel Skylake NVME SSD by Google Cloud


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

  • 1M block
  • Sequential access
  • No filesystem (except for write access with root volume)
  • Avoidance of cache and buffer
Specifications:
CPU
2
RAM
13.0 GB
Extra
1x 375 GB SSD

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Read Write
Max 25593 17857
Average 16956 16383
Deviation 2322.55 374.40
Min 16246 16222

Local SSD NVME

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Read Write
Max 720633 399897
Average 719888 399675
Deviation 473.31 107.14
Min 718248 399456