Testing The First PCIe Gen 5.0 NVMe SSD On Linux Has Been Disappointing

Written by Michael Larabel in Storage on 5 March 2023 at 01:48 PM EST. Page 4 of 5. 59 Comments.
FS-Mark benchmark with settings of Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size. WD_BLACK SN850 1TB was the fastest.
FS-Mark benchmark with settings of Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads. WD_BLACK SN850 1TB was the fastest.
FS-Mark benchmark with settings of Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size. WD_BLACK SN850 1TB was the fastest.
Dbench benchmark with settings of Client Count: 12. WD_BLACK SN850 1TB was the fastest.
CockroachDB benchmark with settings of Workload: MoVR, Concurrency: 128. Solidigm P44 Pro 2TB was the fastest.
MariaDB benchmark with settings of Clients: 64. WD_BLACK SN850 1TB was the fastest.
PostgreSQL benchmark with settings of Scaling Factor: 100, Clients: 500, Mode: Read Write. WD_BLACK SN850 1TB was the fastest.
PostgreSQL benchmark with settings of Scaling Factor: 100, Clients: 500, Mode: Read Write, Average Latency. WD_BLACK SN850 1TB was the fastest.
PostgreSQL benchmark with settings of Scaling Factor: 100, Clients: 1000, Mode: Read Write. WD_BLACK SN850 1TB was the fastest.
PostgreSQL benchmark with settings of Scaling Factor: 100, Clients: 1000, Mode: Read Write, Average Latency. WD_BLACK SN850 1TB was the fastest.

While having high hopes for this drive, when it came to the results in database workloads and other complex workloads, the Inland TD510 on this Intel Core i9 13900K Raptor Lake system was disappointing. This $349~399 SSD tended to at best deliver comparable performance to the likes of the WD_BLACK SN850 and Solidigm P44 Pro as popular PCIe Gen4 drives.


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