dedicated server benchmark ssd disk speed 116mb/s

mustafamw3

Hi
I have a dedicated server with 500gb ssd drive , my I/O disk speed is 116 mb . is it normal or slow ?
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 v6 @ 3.80GHz
Number of cores : 8
CPU frequency : 900.134 MHz
Total size of Disk : 451.0 GB (9.4 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem : 15748 MB (598 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 7999 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime : 0 days, 0 hour 2 min
Load average : 0.29, 0.25, 0.11
OS : CentOS 7.7.1908
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)

Kernel : 3.10.0-1062.4.3.el7.x86_64

I/O speed(1st run) : 116 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run) : 117 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run) : 117 MB/s

Average I/O speed : 116.7 MB/s

Node Name IPv4 address Download Speed
CacheFly 205.234.175.175 110MB/s
Linode, Tokyo2, JP 139.162.65.37 9.49MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG 139.162.23.4 7.34MB/s
Linode, London, UK 176.58.107.39 106MB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE 139.162.130.8 105MB/s

Francisco

Can you show us /proc/cpuinfo? Just a single core.

Francisco

mustafamw3

Francisco said: Can you show us /proc/cpuinfo? Just a single core.

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 158
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 v6 @ 3.80GHz
stepping : 9
microcode : 0xca
cpu MHz : 1053.210
cache size : 8192 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 8
core id : 0
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 22
wp : yes

w_ho_ami

That is much slower than most normal ssds. Maybe use smartctl to check the health of the disk.

mustafamw3

Is 116mb speed is good or slow?

corbpie

mustafamw3 said: Is 116mb speed is good or slow?

If it is SSD then it is slow

poisson

It certainly looks strange for DD. I think you should check the SMART parameters first. Also, I recommend using fio to test 4k blocksize random readwrite.

mustafamw3

corbpie said: If it is SSD then it is slow

>
I created a support ticket for this

HostSlick

What's the complete setup like? Specs? hw raid? Settings?

Could be many reasons for that to happen. For example we have a dedicated server customer here, he setup everything himself using ilo4 and opened tickets because his 2x1TB SSD hw raid1 server was pushing maximum of 199mb/s write with dd. In the end it seemed that he disabled disk write cache in the Raid controller which have slowed this disks down.
After fix it again pushed like 534 mb/s.

mustafamw3

poisson said: It certainly looks strange for DD. I think you should check the SMART parameters first. Also, I recommend using fio to test 4k blocksize random readwrite.

Model Family: Western Digital RE4
Device Model: WDC WD5003ABYZ-011FA0
Serial Number: WD-WMAYP0P2MZF8
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 059b8e8b9
Firmware Version: 01.01S03
User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Thu Dec 19 11:07:09 2019 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

is this ssd or hdd ?

poisson

@HostSlick said:
What's the complete setup like? Specs? hw raid? Settings?

Could be many reasons for that to happen. For example we have a dedicated server customer here, he setup everything himself using ilo4 and opened tickets because his 2x1TB SSD hw raid1 server was pushing maximum of 199mb/s write with dd. In the end it seemed that he disabled disk write cache in the Raid controller which have slowed this disks down.
After fix it again pushed like 534 mb/s.

Good point. This is why I prefer a VPS or a hybrid dedicated because I rather leave the intricacies of hardware configuration to the provider.

Francisco

mustafamw3 said: Model Family: Western Digital RE4

That's an HDD.

Francisco

mustafamw3

Francisco said: That's an HDD.

>
But I purchased ssd drive . I will create a ticket for it

mustafamw3

HostSlick said: What's the complete setup like? Specs? hw raid? Settings?

Could be many reasons for that to happen. For example we have a dedicated server customer here, he setup everything himself using ilo4 and opened tickets because his 2x1TB SSD hw raid1 server was pushing maximum of 199mb/s write with dd. In the end it seemed that he disabled disk write cache in the Raid controller which have slowed this disks down.

After fix it again pushed like 534 mb/s.

Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX1330 M3 Intel Xeon E3-1270v6 3.80GHz iRMC ChampionDeal
Memory: 16GB ECC DDR4 RAM
Storage: 1x 500GB SSD
50TB traffic per month
OS: CentOS 7.x
1Gbit/s Premium Network
Guaranteed speed: 1Gbit/s up & 1Gbit/s down
without raid

poisson

@mustafamw3 said:

HostSlick said: What's the complete setup like? Specs? hw raid? Settings?

Could be many reasons for that to happen. For example we have a dedicated server customer here, he setup everything himself using ilo4 and opened tickets because his 2x1TB SSD hw raid1 server was pushing maximum of 199mb/s write with dd. In the end it seemed that he disabled disk write cache in the Raid controller which have slowed this disks down.

After fix it again pushed like 534 mb/s.

Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX1330 M3 Intel Xeon E3-1270v6 3.80GHz iRMC ChampionDeal
Memory: 16GB ECC DDR4 RAM
Storage: 1x 500GB SSD
50TB traffic per month
OS: CentOS 7.x
1Gbit/s Premium Network
Guaranteed speed: 1Gbit/s up & 1Gbit/s down
without raid

They gave you a HDD by mistake? Maybe you want to check the details again to be sure. Also, if you want a better feel of real-world performance, fio random readwrite is better than dd. You should be able to get instructions online easily.

mustafamw3

poisson said: They gave you a HDD by mistake? Maybe you want to check the details again to be sure. Also, if you want a better feel of real-world performance, fio random readwrite is better than dd. You should be able to get instructions online easily.

The support answered my ticket

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you for contacting support.

We have noticed that your server has been delivered with a 500GB HDD. We would like to replace the HDD for a 500GB SSD. Would you like to have a re-install our do you need to keep some data?

Awaiting your reply.

Met vriendelijke groet / Kind regards,

Jerry - Support Engineer

mustafamw3

poisson said: They gave you a HDD by mistake?

Yes

Alfie

Could be a genuine mistake, however if this happens on a common basis I wonder how many client's would run the benchmarks and realise the read/write speeds of the disk are inferior.
It's a huge cost saving measure for the provider to offer a HDD instead of an SSD here however if you were offered an SSD then I'm glad the provider replaced the drive / offered a server replacement free of charge.
It does make you wonder how many other people the provider may have done this to though.

HostMedia

If you have had this server for over a month I hope they refund/credit you the difference - it does seem like a mistake by the provider.

mustafamw3

Alfie said: Could be a genuine mistake, however if this happens on a common basis I wonder how many client's would run the benchmarks and realise the read/write speeds of the disk are inferior.
It's a huge cost saving measure for the provider to offer a HDD instead of an SSD here however if you were offered an SSD then I'm glad the provider replaced the drive / offered a server replacement free of charge.
It does make you wonder how many other people the provider may have done this to though.

They replaced my drive within 1 hour , I bought a custom configuration server , this kind of mistakes happen on custom configuration server. but they should always double check to avoid mistakes

HostMedia said: If you have had this server for over a month I hope they refund/credit you the difference - it does seem like a mistake by the provider.

There are 9€ difference between ssd and hdd prices , Fortunately I had this server for less than a month

Jord

I'm glad you were able to get this all sorted.

logixmedia

@mustafamw3 worldstream.nl?

Falzo

@logixmedia said:
@mustafamw3 worldstream.nl?

most likely.