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8K RANDOM READ/WRITE
We precondition our enterprise SSDs using 100% random 8K writes at QD256 for two drive fills. Performance data is recorded every second. We track this data to monitor the enterprise SSDs transition to steady-state and to verify that steady-state conditions are achieved before initiating queue depth testing.
Steady-state is established after a full drive fill and the average steady-state 8K random write performance is approximately 637K IOPS.
The R6301 8K read average performance of 2290K is excellent.
8K 70/30
8K 70/30 is representative of a typical database workload and 1100K IOPS is great.
8K 50/50
853K 8K 50/50 write IOPS is a great result, especially watching its performance level out as it does.
Let me guess–if you have to ask how much it costs you can’t afford it.
Even the company cannot suggest a price as of yet, but yes with the new norm in flash prices, this will be a very niche item.
Honestly, I was excited about the x8 native SSD, then realized part way through the review they had just done two x4 SSDs under the covers instead. Guessing some of the under performance can be explained by the overhead of managing the two SSDs under the covers being presented as a single logical unit to the outside world.
There is no trickery here as it would have shown its face during enterprise testing. The trickery of which you speak kind of goes back all the way to the old Intel 910 SSD or even Kingston DCP 1000 where you can RAID two separate onboard volumes. The DP800 controller functions as an eight lane controller and the volume is full capacity. Can you clarify your thoughts any further?