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    Microsoft diskspd. Part 1 Preparing to test.

    Published: (Updated: ) in diskspd, , , , by gary. Leave a Comment on Microsoft diskspd. Part 1 Preparing to test..

    How to install and setup diskspd before starting your first performance tests and avoiding wrong results due to null byte issues.

    Why does my SSD not issue 1MB IO’s?

    Published: (Updated: ) in Storage Performance, , , , , by gary. Leave a Comment on Why does my SSD not issue 1MB IO’s?.

    First things First Why do we tend to use 1MB IO sizes for throughput benchmarking? To achieve the maximum throughput on a storage device, we will usually use a large IO size to maximize the amount of data is transferred per IO request. The idea is to make the ratio of data-transfers to IO requests […]