Why does my SSD not issue 1MB IO’s?
n0derunner
MARCH 13, 2020
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. For historical reasons, many storage testers will use a 1MB IO size for sequential testing. Using iostat.
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