Hello everyone! Today we tested the download, disk write, and disk read speeds. Here is a data table with the results of the tests.
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Speed in MB/s | Speed in MB/s | ||||
Test Type | Test Number | Location | Test | Digital Ocean | Linode |
Download | 1 | Internet | wget speeds from http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/test/1000meg.test | 18.7 | 13.9 |
Download | 2 | Internet | wget speeds from http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/test/1000meg.test | 16.2 | 11.7 |
Download | 3 | Internet | wget speeds from http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/test/1000meg.test | 15 | 10.2 |
Average | 16.63 | 11.93 | |||
Test Type | Test Number | Location | Test | Digital Ocean | Linode |
Write | 1 | Disk | sync; dd if=/dev/disk of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync | 364 | 292 |
Write | 2 | Disk | sync; dd if=/dev/disk of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync | 395 | 306 |
Write | 3 | Disk | sync; dd if=/dev/disk of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync | 390 | 290 |
Write | 4 | Disk | sync; dd if=/dev/disk of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync | 379 | 294 |
Write | 5 | Disk | sync; dd if=/dev/disk of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync | 383 | 298 |
Write | 6 | Disk | sync; dd if=/dev/disk of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync | 408 | 301 |
Average | 386.5 | 296.83 | |||
Test Type | Test Number | Location | Test | Digital Ocean | Linode |
Read | 1 | Disk | dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024 | 887 | 546 |
Read | 2 | Disk | dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024 | 1,228.80 | 642 |
Read | 3 | Disk | dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024 | 945 | 594 |
Read | 4 | Disk | dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024 | 1,126.40 | 582 |
Read | 5 | Disk | dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024 | 987 | 651 |
Read | 6 | Disk | dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024 | 1,126.40 | 692 |
Average | 1,050.10 | 617.83 |