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Elastic Block Store 215GB

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Release date ≈ Q4 2019.

Average Bench: 63.9% (754th of 1072)

Based on 8 user benchmarks.  Model: Amazon Elastic Block Store
Poor: 36%Average: 63.9% Great: 208%

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Above average average bench

The Amazon Elastic Block Store 215GB averaged 36.0% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Sequential Read Speed 1,076MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 18.6MB/s

Terrible consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Amazon Elastic Block Store 215GB is 172%. This is a particularly wide range which indicates that the Amazon Elastic Block Store 215GB performs inconsistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 5.28MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 6.42MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 8 samples)
Rank 75463.9%
Min Avg Max
354 Read 1,076 4,364
4 Write 175 273
10.2 Mixed 285 344
76.1 SusWrite 156 225
91.4% 423 MB/s
Min Avg Max
6.7 4K Read 18.6 73.2
0 4K Write 5.28 7
0 4K Mixed 6.42 9.9
39.2% 10.1 MB/s
User Benchmarks BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
The fastest SSD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
161GB free (System drive)
Firmware: 1.0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 208 218 222 222 230 250 MB/s
54.3% Above average
Read 728
Write 168
Mixed 339
SusWrite 225
80% 365 MB/s
4K Read 15.3
4K Write 7
4K Mixed 8.7
38% 10.3 MB/s
23GB free (System drive)
Firmware: 1.0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 118 118 158 158 161 162 MB/s
46.8% Average
Read 698
Write 199
Mixed 312
SusWrite 146
74% 339 MB/s
4K Read 13
4K Write 6.2
4K Mixed 7.9
33% 9.03 MB/s
168GB free (System drive)
Firmware: 1.0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 122 124 202 222 215 232 MB/s
43.6% Average
Read 626
Write 224
Mixed 344
SusWrite 186
76% 345 MB/s
4K Read 7.8
4K Write 5.8
4K Mixed 6.6
23% 6.73 MB/s
163GB free (System drive)
Firmware: 1.0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 108 103 160 214 212 225 MB/s
42.4% Average
Read 626
Write 158
Mixed 326
SusWrite 170
70% 320 MB/s
4K Read 7.7
4K Write 5.5
4K Mixed 6.2
22% 6.47 MB/s
53GB free (System drive)
Firmware: 1.0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 175 179 184 189 181 189 MB/s
41.4% Average
Read 590
Write 225
Mixed 339
SusWrite 183
74% 334 MB/s
4K Read 7.3
4K Write 5.6
4K Mixed 5.9
22% 6.27 MB/s
166GB free (System drive)
Firmware: 1.0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 87 87 92 148 143 138 MB/s
38.5% Below average
Read 622
Write 149
Mixed 336
SusWrite 116
67% 306 MB/s
4K Read 6.7
4K Write 5.5
4K Mixed 6.2
21% 6.13 MB/s

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Gaming 45%
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Desktop
Desktop 68%
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Workstation
Workstation 40%
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System: Amazon g4dn.xlarge

CPU
Xeon Platinum 8259CLIntelBench 58%, 133 samples20x
GPU
Tesla T4NvidiaBench 73%, 176 samples19x
RTXA6000-16NvidiaBench 49%, 1 sample1x
SSD
Elastic Block Store 215GBAmazonBench 64%, 8 samples1x
RAM
1x16GBUnknownBench 53%, 15,722 samples20x
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