intel P3608

[SGant]

MB: SUPERMICRO X10DRH-iT

Proc: 2x INTEL Xeon E5-2620V3 2.4GHz 15MB 6C/12T

I have a question regarding Intel P3608.

i don't know if we get all the performance from the NVMe Intel P3608.

is there any other way to test the performance?

thx

CrystalDiskMark 5.2.1 x64 (C) 2007-2017 hiyohiyo

Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/

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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]

* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 5395.325 MB/s

Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 2015.354 MB/s

Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 462.633 MB/s [112947.5 IOPS]

Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 436.565 MB/s [106583.3 IOPS]

Sequential Read (T= 1) : 2259.450 MB/s

Sequential Write (T= 1) : 1899.885 MB/s

Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 37.511 MB/s [ 9158.0 IOPS]

Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 210.011 MB/s [ 51272.2 IOPS]

Test : 4096 MiB [X: 0.0% (0.2/1490.4 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec]

Date : 2017/01/15 16:32:53

OS : Windows Server 2016 Server Standard (full installation) [10.0 Build 14393] (x64)

[idata]

Hello S.G.,

Again, it's odd that your random reads are low when your sequential reads, as well as all other results, show a healthy drive performing as would be expected.To rule any testing issues, let's run the test one last time. I'm aware I didn't mention it before, but this time, let's look at section 3 (mainly 3.2 and 3.3+) and make sure to follow all these recommendations.Thank you for your patience.Regards,Carlos A.

[SGant]

in previous replies i've mentioned that all the test were run on virtual machine running on hyper-v server... i had problem running iometer on the server

now i've managed to run the test on "base" server, all the tests are 4KB random read,

i've disabled windows defender, windows updates, put the comp. in high performance, erased the disks

Intel P3608 1.6TB

here are the aprox results

1. single disk (800GB) without windows format = 400k IOPS

2. single disk (800GB) WITH windows format = 300k IOPS

3. RAID 0, created with Intel Rapid Storage Technology enterprise, without windows format; cannot do the test with Iometer (don't see the disk)

4. RAID 0, created with Intel Rapid Storage Technology enterprise, WITH windows format= 220k IOPS

5. RAID 0, created with windows disk management= 300k IOPS

[SGant]

installing Intel RTSe NVMe RAID Driver

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25771/-Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Enterprise-NVMe-Inte... Download Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Enterprise NVMe (Intel® RSTe NVMe) RAID Driver (4.5.0.2123)https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25771/-Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Enterprise-NVMe-Inte... https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25771/-Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Enterprise-NVMe-Inte...

or

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/26224/-Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Enterprise-NVMe-Inte... Download Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Enterprise NVMe (Intel® RSTe NVMe) RAID Driver ( latest 4.5.0.2125 )

i always end up with driver version 4.5.0.2122...

[idata]

Hello S.G.,

For benchmarking it's very important to follow the steps on the evaluation guide, as this is how we test the drives before posting the results to our ark.intel.com website. It's also very unlikely that a drive will pass only 3 of 4 benchmarking tests, as they are all closely related. I'm inclined to believe your SSD is performing as it should. We must be missing something when performing the random reads test, as the reading data is much simpler and faster on solid state drives than writing is (there are fewer steps involved).As far as your Intel® RSTe driver version, we don't handle this directly (RST and RSTe are handled by our chipsets team). However, it's not uncommon for driver packages to contain different versions. Usually, the latest applicable version will be the one to install. Does the version also not match when you check from the user interface?Best regards,Carlos A.

[SGant]

1. why is there so big of diffference in Iometer tests

1. single disk (800GB) without windows format = 400k IOPS

2. single disk (800GB) WITH windows format = 300k IOPS

3. RAID 0, created with Intel Rapid Storage Technology enterprise, without windows format; cannot do the test with Iometer (don't see the disk)

4. RAID 0, created with Intel Rapid Storage Technology enterprise, WITH windows format= 220k IOPS

5. RAID 0, created with windows disk management= 300k IOPS

2. where can i check the version of my installed driver

regards, sg