[Test] OVH KS-MYSTERY | E-2288G | 64G RAM | 2TB NVMe SSD + 12TB HDD Hybrid Drive

vpsStore · May 8

Detailed specifications as follows:

Type	Configuration
CPU	Intel E-2288G 8 Cores 16 Threads
Memory	64G
Disk1	2x960G NVMe SSD
Disk2	2x6TB HDD HDD
Network	1G Uplink 10G Downlink Unlimited Traffic
Datacenter	GRA, France
Renewal	22.9 EUR/month

YABS Test:

Basic System Information:
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Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 24 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) E-2288G CPU @ 3.70GHz
CPU cores  : 16 @ 800.000 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 62.5 GiB
Swap       : 16.0 GiB
Disk       : 12.6 TiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
Kernel     : 6.12.85+deb13-amd64
VM Type    : NONE
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
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ISP        : OVH SAS
ASN        : AS16276 OVH SAS
Host       : OVH
Location   : Gravelines, Hauts-de-France (HDF)
Country    : France

Processor Performance Test:

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 1441                              
Multi Core      |   8507                            
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/24290336

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     |    1849                           
Multi Core      |      8524                         
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/17915459

NVMe SSD Performance Test:

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/md3):
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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 1.20 GB/s   (300.2k) | 1.35 GB/s    (21.1k)
Write      | 1.20 GB/s   (301.0k) | 1.36 GB/s    (21.2k)
Total      | 2.40 GB/s   (601.2k) | 2.71 GB/s    (42.4k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 1.55 GB/s     (3.0k) | 1.62 GB/s     (1.5k)
Write      | 1.63 GB/s     (3.1k) | 1.73 GB/s     (1.6k)
Total      | 3.18 GB/s     (6.2k) | 3.36 GB/s     (3.2k)

HDD Performance Test:


fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/md4):
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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 3.33 MB/s      (834) | 35.02 MB/s     (547)
Write      | 3.36 MB/s      (842) | 35.40 MB/s     (553)
Total      | 6.70 MB/s     (1.6k) | 70.42 MB/s    (1.1k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 126.80 MB/s    (247) | 130.71 MB/s    (127)
Write      | 133.53 MB/s    (260) | 139.41 MB/s    (136)
Total      | 260.33 MB/s    (507) | 270.12 MB/s    (263)

Network Test:


iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 971 Mbits/sec   | 8.31 Gbits/sec  | 3.82 ms        
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 970 Mbits/sec   | 9.38 Gbits/sec  | 7.25 ms        
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 855 Mbits/sec   | 2.41 Gbits/sec  | 97.5 ms        
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 707 Mbits/sec   | 741 Mbits/sec   | 165 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 326 Mbits/sec   | 1.19 Gbits/sec  | 149 ms         
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 898 Mbits/sec   | 3.25 Gbits/sec  | 78.5 ms        
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 810 Mbits/sec   | busy            | 226 ms

Brief Evaluation:

This hybrid drive configuration is very rare among the OVH KS-MYSTERY series servers; I have currently only seen two servers with this exact configuration.
The single-core performance of the processor is also quite good, and this processor also features integrated graphics.
The combination of high-performance NVMe + large-capacity HDD makes me personally feel that it is much more practical than other KS-MYSTERY configurations.
The combination I am currently using is: a KS-LE-B with 16TB HDD plus an E-2288G KS-MYSTERY with 4TB NVMe.
This single server can consolidate the functions of both of those servers together.
Overall, this is a server that I am highly satisfied with.