NVMe SSD Benchmark
Once the driver installation has been successfully completed, you can run a benchmark on the NVMe SSD to test its actual read and write speeds.
To test read and write speeds, you can use the free software CrystalDiskMark 8, for example. After installation, the profile should be adjusted via the menu item Settings → NVMe SSD.
Test with 1 GiB
The following result was achieved with a test size of 1 GiB:
| Read | Write | |
|---|---|---|
| Bandwidth: | Up to 28.0 GB/s | Up to 16.6 GB/s |
Test with 2 GiB
The following result was achieved with a test size of 2 GiB:
| Read | Write | |
|---|---|---|
| Bandwidth: | Up to 26.1 GB/s | Up to 12.4 GB/s |
Test with 16 MiB
The following result was achieved with a test size of 16 MiB:
| Read | Write | |
|---|---|---|
| Bandwidth: | Up to 29.6 GB/s | Up to 30.9 GB/s |
Hardware Used:
For the NVMe SSD read and write test, a creoline Windows Server 2022 with 16 CPU cores and 16 GiB of RAM, as well as a 100 GiB NVMe SSD, was used.
Hypervisor Configuration:
The following configuration is used on all physical creoline servers for virtualizing Windows servers starting with Generation 4:
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Processor: | 2x Intel® Xeon® Gold 6348 CPU |
| Memory: | 16x 64 GiB DDR4 ECC RAM 3,200 MHz |
| Storage: | 16x Micron 7450 Pro NVMe SSD (hot-swap, 2.5”) |
| RAID: | RAID 10, 2x dedicated hot spares |
Important:
Please note that the read and write speeds shown here are intended to indicate the maximum NVMe performance specifically for creoline Windows Server and do not represent guaranteed read or write speeds. The actual speed of the NVMe SSD may vary.