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Re:Samsung Demos Its First BGA SSD: 1500 MB/s Read Speed and... by fahadkhan on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @12:35PM (#11815815)
I have two of these in raid 0 in a Lenovo P70.

  fahad@heffalump:~/fiotest$  sudo fio --filename=$PWD/testfile --direct=1 --sync=1 --rw=read --bs=4k --numjobs=8 --iodepth=32 --runtime=60 --time_based --group_reporting --size=1G --name=journal-test
  journal-test: (g=0): rw=read, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=sync, iodepth=32
  ...
  fio-2.2.10
  Starting 8 processes
  journal-test: Laying out IO file(s) (1 file(s) / 1024MB)
  Jobs: 8 (f=8): [R(8)] [100.0% done] [367.8MB/0KB/0KB /s] [94.2K/0/0 iops] [eta 00m:00s]
  journal-test: (groupid=0, jobs=8): err= 0: pid=25184: Wed Jun  1 17:32:44 2016
    read : io=22265MB, bw=379986KB/s, iops=94996, runt= 60001msec
      clat (usec): min=15, max=19595, avg=83.59, stdev=102.01
       lat (usec): min=15, max=19595, avg=83.65, stdev=102.02
      clat percentiles (usec):
     |  1.00th=[   20],  5.00th=[   65], 10.00th=[   66], 20.00th=[   68],
       | 30.00th=[   75], 40.00th=[   79], 50.00th=[   80], 60.00th=[   82],
       | 70.00th=[   84], 80.00th=[   90], 90.00th=[   97], 95.00th=[  108],
       | 99.00th=[  141], 99.50th=[  173], 99.90th=[  900], 99.95th=[ 1704],
       | 99.99th=[ 4768]
      bw (KB  /s): min=43704, max=53976, per=12.51%, avg=47524.23, stdev=1225.35
      lat (usec) : 20=0.74%, 50=1.42%, 100=89.28%, 250=8.32%, 500=0.09%
      lat (usec) : 750=0.03%, 1000=0.03%
      lat (msec) : 2=0.06%, 4=0.02%, 10=0.01%, 20=0.01%
    cpu          : usr=1.38%, sys=7.92%, ctx=5737418, majf=0, minf=89
    IO depths    : 1=100.0%, 2=0.0%, 4=0.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
       submit    : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
       complete  : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
       issued    : total=r=5699889/w=0/d=0, short=r=0/w=0/d=0, drop=r=0/w=0/d=0
       latency   : target=0, window=0, percentile=100.00%, depth=32

  Run status group 0 (all jobs):
     READ: io=22265MB, aggrb=379986KB/s, minb=379986KB/s, maxb=379986KB/s, mint=60001msec, maxt=60001msec
Re:Samsung Demos Its First BGA SSD: 1500 MB/s Read Speed and... by olavgg on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @01:50PM (#11816584)
That is awesome, what do you get with writes? (rw=write)
Re:Samsung Demos Its First BGA SSD: 1500 MB/s Read Speed and... by nl on Thursday June 02, 2016 @09:25AM (#11822237)
I ran both: https://gist.github.com/nlothian/e22ee30c6ccb8d473058d9e0864...

Read is a lot (LOT) faster than writes. Enough to make me thing I might have something misconfigurated there(?), although I'm not familiar enough with this benchmark to know for sure.

Re:Samsung Demos Its First BGA SSD: 1500 MB/s Read Speed and... by jandrese on Thursday June 02, 2016 @03:01PM (#11825157)
It's not unusual for write performance to be staggeringly worse than read on SSDs. It all depends how the controller is setup and how the manufacturer wants it to benchmark. Most sites emphasize read performance so the companies tune for it.