> > I have tested with these options several times in a Windows environment. SSDs experience higher performance if more area of the drive is left 'spare'(overprovisioning), and when limiting the LBA range with similar methodology the same SSD features higher speed when tested with VDBench. > Is it possible there is a bug with fio in windows? It's impossible to even begin to say without knowing what your vdbench taskfile looked like... -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html The taskfile is this: >> [global] >> name=4ktest >> filename=\\.\physicaldrive1 >> direct=1 >> numjobs=8 >> norandommap >> ba=4k >> time_based >> size=745g >> log_avg_msec=100000 >> group_reporting=1 >> ######################################################### >> >> [4K Precon] >> stonewall >> runtime=15000 >> iodepth=32 >> bs=4k >> rw=randwrite > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
