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Importance of IOPS, where to look at
Hi all,
I'm trying to decide whether I should pick provider #2 over provider #1.
I'm happy with the other YABS results, but what I have less feeling with is the impact of the IOPS results between provider #1 and #2.
What kind of performance differences would I see if both YABS results would be the only difference between the two?
Which block-size results are the most important to look at (4k,64k,512k,1m) and why?
Added context: we talk about a VPS/VDS with some calculations being done and a webserver with a low/medium amount of users.
Are Provider #2 results bad, or is provider #1 very good? Don't have a good feeling with these numbers.
Hope you experts could help me out? Thanks
Provider #1
| Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS) |
|---|---|---|
| Read | 275.54 MB/s (68.8k) | 3.56 GB/s (55.7k) |
| Write | 276.26 MB/s (69.0k) | 3.58 GB/s (56.0k) |
| Total | 551.80 MB/s (137.9k) | 7.15 GB/s (111.8k) |
| Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS) |
| ------ | --- ---- | ---- ---- |
| Read | 8.47 GB/s (16.5k) | 10.57 GB/s (10.3k) |
| Write | 8.92 GB/s (17.4k) | 11.27 GB/s (11.0k) |
| Total | 17.40 GB/s (33.9k) | 21.84 GB/s (21.3k) |
Provider #2:
| Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS) |
|---|---|---|
| Read | 181.94 MB/s (45.4k) | 1.80 GB/s (28.2k) |
| Write | 182.42 MB/s (45.6k) | 1.81 GB/s (28.4k) |
| Total | 364.37 MB/s (91.0k) | 3.62 GB/s (56.6k) |
| Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS) |
| ------ | --- ---- | ---- ---- |
| Read | 5.19 GB/s (10.1k) | 5.34 GB/s (5.2k) |
| Write | 5.47 GB/s (10.6k) | 5.69 GB/s (5.5k) |
| Total | 10.67 GB/s (20.8k) | 11.03 GB/s (10.7k) |
Comments
I dont really understand the post? provider #1 wins in every aspect bigger is better or so they say
Yup and that's why I ask, if course there is a price difference between the two 😁
What real life differences would I experience. Are Provider #2 results bad, or is provider #1 very good? Don't have a good feeling with these numbers. Will add this to the post, thanks.
To be honest, you probably wouldn't notice a difference between the two. Both results are extremely high and are well beyond what any typical application would consume anyway.
Choose whichever provider has better CPU performance, pricing, support, or something else.
In most cases, you should look at 4K IOPS.
Have you got a use case in mind? Most applications that don't have a heavy load run okay on hard drives (80-200 IOPS) -- of course with less performance -- so any of these are sufficient -- but sometimes you really need more.
It's mostly for downloading some datasets (approx 15GB) every couple of hours, extracting, processing it, then it becomes available on a web server.