Liquidweb SoD SSD

[JCash]

Fired one these up this morning and it's kind of a big deal.

SoD US West 2GB:

[root@sod1 ~]# hdparm -tT /dev/vda3

/dev/vda3:
 Timing cached reads:   14088 MB in  2.00 seconds = 7053.31 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  448 MB in  3.10 seconds = 144.37 MB/sec

[root@sod1 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/output.img bs=8k count=100000
100000+0 records in
100000+0 records out
819200000 bytes (819 MB) copied, 10.9258 s, 75.0 MB/s

SoD SSD 3GB:

[root@ssd ~]# hdparm -tT /dev/vda3

/dev/vda3:
 Timing cached reads:   20228 MB in  2.00 seconds = 10128.82 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  1454 MB in  3.00 seconds = 484.44 MB/sec

[root@ssd ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/output.img bs=8k count=100000
100000+0 records in
100000+0 records out
819200000 bytes (819 MB) copied, 0.890082 s, 920 MB/s

Almost 10 times better raw write, and about 3 times better on buffered reads. If IO (and more specifically mysql) is your bottleneck, which is likely the case with high volume WP network sites or with LAMP apps like 202, this SoD option gives performance that kicks the crap out of of more expensive dedis offerings with the convenient backups, console and scaling the SoD platform is known for.

 

[ScottDaMan]

Damn! I've been looking at SoD just for the speed factor alone. This would definitely speed up any PHP/MySQL website.

I'll probably switch a major site of mine to them soon. Thanks for posting.

 

[Insomniac]

[root@bully ~]# hdparm -tT /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads:   28128 MB in  2.00 seconds = 14088.82 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 486 MB in  3.01 seconds = 161.39 MB/sec

[root@bully ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/output.img bs=8k count=100000
100000+0 records in
100000+0 records out
819200000 bytes (819 MB) copied, 0.412974 s, 2.0 GB/s

And 2 million hours MTBF. Enterprise SSD FTW!