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Here’s a sample set of results from a 335GB general purpose SSD volume in Amazon EBS: Usually I find that during the first round of storage tests, it’s not performing well period – and it doesn’t make sense to bring SQL Server into the game just yet. We’re not looking to get an exact representation of SQL Server’s IO patterns here – we’re just trying to get a fast, one-button-click-easy measurement of how storage performs. SQL Server stores stuff on disk in 8K pages, and zooming out a little, groups of 8 8KB pages (64K extents). The more astute readers (and by that I mean you, you good-looking charmer) will notice that 4K operations don’t really measure SQL Server’s IO. RND4K Q1T1 – Ignore, SQL Server doesn’t work like this.This is somewhat akin to an active OLTP server, or a TempDB drive. RND4K Q32T16 – random tiny operations, but many done at a time.SEQ1M Q1T1 – ignore, SQL Server doesn’t work like this.

For SQL Server, this is somewhat akin to doing backups or doing table scans of perfectly defragmented data, like a data warehouse.

SEQ1M Q8T1 – lots of long, sequential operations.

While it runs, here’s an explanation of each row’s results:

You want to test where your data, log, and TempDB files live, and for fun, also test the C drive and your desktop or laptop for comparison.Īfter making your choices, click the All button.

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Keep an eye on the free space there – you don’t want to create a test file that can run your server out of drive space. Just know that the bigger the test file, the longer it takes to generate. Smaller test file sizes may look fast but don’t really reflect how a large database will work. If you’re under the gun, do a quick 1GiB test, but for real go-live prep, I like using 32GB to reduce the chances that I’m just hitting cache and getting artificially fast numbers. If you want a fast seat-of-the-pants guess, do 1, but keep in mind it can be wildly variant between passes if something else happens to be going on in the SAN.

1 – the number of test passes you want to run.

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The zip version can be just saved to a network share, and then anybody can run it from there.Īfter extracting the zip file’s contents, run DiskMark64.exe on an idle server or desktop first (not your live SQL Server, because it’ll slow things down while it runs.) It’ll look like this:Īcross the top, set the first three dropdowns to: The zip version doesn’t require an installer, which is cool because I’m not a fan of installing things on production servers.

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There are multiple download links – you want CRYSTALDISKMARK, not CrystalDiskInfo, and you want the Standard Edition, Zip Version. Go to the CrystalDiskMark download page, but PAY CLOSE ATTENTION. (I’ll be charitable and not tell you which one.) Instead, let’s get seat-of-the-pants numbers for your storage. It takes knowledge and time, and you only have one of those.

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We don't have any recurring charges or in-app purchases in any of our apps.I’ve written about how to test your SAN’s performance with SQLIO, but I’ll be honest with you: that’s the hard way. Lifetime upgrades are included when you purchase the app. DiskMark is specifically built to take these into account so that the read/write performance reported in the benchmark is as close to the real-life performance. The latest NVME/M.2 SATA SSDs employ various techniques such as SLC caching and DRAM buffers to showcase better speeds. A history of benchmarks lets you quickly compare your own drives. It also exhausts I/O buffer caches, resulting in highly accurate results which you can expect to see in real life. + Random read/write speeds which is the performance you experience when opening or using programs that read and write a lot of files to disk.ĭiskMark is extremely simple to use and invaluable if you work with any USB drives (flash or external harddisks). + Sequential read/write speeds which is the performance you see when copying large files. Test the performance of your solid state drives (NVME/SATA), hard disk drives and flash drives (pen/usb) in just one minute.ĭiskMark performs real world speed tests and shows:

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