@blonkel
Wow, great graphs.
Thanks for your efforts.
I also found optimal throughput at 16 KB block size.
What does “long-preconditioning” mean exactly?
Don’t I see slightly improved performance in Sustained Sequential Reads for 4096 around the 8192 block size mark formate?
So we can conclude that there’s almost no performance increase to be had at 4096 format. So the only remaining benefits will be the improved ECC and less space consumed for it. Will 4096 format improve longevity?
Did you look into cooling the drive? Have a look over here?
Did you test with one of those newer drives of the same SN550 model, that suffer from slow NAND, which shows when they run out of 12GB of cache (at the 32768 mark) (see also there).
