Solidigm P44 Pro Linux Performance

DBench is another case like SQLite where the Samsung SSDs perform extremely poor under Linux while the Solidigm P44 Pro drives were offering comparable performance to the WD_BLACK SN850 and P41 Plus drives.

For those wanting to run their own MySQL/MariaDB database server on some budget consumer drives for either testing/development purposes or SOHO type deployments, the Solidigm P44 Pro performance was good and coming in only behind the WD_BLACK SN850 series. Again, the Samsung 980/990 PRO drives consistently perform poor in these database workloads on Linux.

The Solidiigm P44 Pro performance with PostgreSQL was also competitive to the well known WD_BLACK SN850 series SSDs.

Overall the Solidigm P44 Pro series was performing well on Linux and generally offered performance competitive to the WD_BLACK SN850/SN850X series while being priced well. The Solidigm P44 Pro drives also handled database workloads fine on Linux unlike the Samsung 900 series drives that have been showing abnormally low performance under such conditions. Those wishing to go through all of these benchmark results can find them on this result page.

Thanks to Solidigm for sending out these 1TB/2TB P44 Pro review samples for Linux testing on Phoronix.