Introduction As will be shown, the SSD benchmark testing “lies” are more ones of omission than of commission. But despite honorable intentions, any result must be considered a “lie” when it provides meaningless or, worse yet, misleading information. The underlying cause of these lies is a familiar one: accurate testing takes time. So short-cuts are taken. Important procedures get skipped. Key considerations are ignored. Results are read before performance stabilizes. Important tests are run without proper preparation—or not run at all. The situation with performance testing of solid state drives is not unlike what occurred when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) introduced its gasoline mileage rating system in the 1970’s. The test simulations were not representative of the way most people drive, so the results were notoriously high. Virtually no one got the highway or city mileage “determined” from the testing, while the regulators and auto manufacturers alike acknowledged, yet completely ignored the problem. Subsequent enhancements have dramatically improved the accuracy of the results, but the changes were slow in coming. For example, highway speed limits increased from 55 to 65 MPH in 1987, but the EPA tests did not take this into account until the 2008 model year—21 years later! The “your mileage may vary” caveat applies equally to SSD benchmark testing today. Some testing is robust, with the results providing an accurate prediction of the performance that might be expected in the real-world. More likely, the results are way off, way too often. Here are the three key factors that determine whether or not SSD benchmark testing…

Alex, from Fliphost, is back with a nice load of offers! While they usually come up with KVM offers, this time it’s OpenVZ’s turn! There’s four normal SSD-based OpenVZ VPS offers and three “normal storage” OpenVZ VPS offers with unlimited bandwidth. The storage offers are only available in Dallas, while the other offers are also available in Buffalo. Fliphost were founded in June 2011 and have since been purchased by Query Foundry. They do run as an independent brand in the Query Foundry “family of brands”, with Query Foundry having recently acquired LiquidHost and GetDedi a bit before that. Fliphost have featured several times before and their offers are usually quite popular. They have also had a populardedicated server offer a while back. Alex informs us that the servers they run are Dual E5-16XX’s with 128GB RAM and 8x Intel 520 SSDs in hardware RAID10 with the LSI 9266/9271 card. Feel free to share your experiences with Fliphost in the comments. Storage50 256MB RAM 256MB vSwap 50GB disk space Unlimited bandwidth 50Mbps uplink 1x IPv4 address OpenVZ/SolusVM $18/year Order in Dallas SSD128 128MB RAM 128MB vSwap 5GB SSD disk space 500GB bandwidth 1Gbps uplink 1x IPv4 address OpenVZ/SolusVM $13.50/year Order in Dallas Order in Buffalo SSD2 1024MB RAM 512MB vSwap 20GB SSD disk space 1TB bandwidth 1Gbps uplink 1x IPv4 address OpenVZ/SolusVM $6.50/month Order in Dallas Order in Buffalo Note: All prices are prorated, so the checkout price may appear less than the recurring amount. More offers inside! Storage100 256MB RAM 256MB vSwap 100GB disk space Unlimited bandwidth 100Mbps uplink 1x IPv4 address OpenVZ/SolusVM $2.62/month Order in…

  Radoslav, from FtpIt, has sent in four OpenVZ offers to celebrate his anniversary with us! Two of these offers are in Buffalo, NY, and the other two are in Los Angeles, CA. FtpIt celebrated their one-year anniversary in January, so congratulations with that! This Related Site of internet marketing is an important benefit that businesses can take advantage of to provide their consumers the best shopping experience. Radoslav has been slowly building a stable business over the past year and it’s a good sign they are still here. Each of their servers are powered by the Intel Xeon E3-1240v2 CPU, 32GB Ram and 4 x 1TB SATA Hard Drives with LSI Hardware RAID10. They’re using 120 GB Intel 520 Series SSDs for their SSD offers and for caching. 2GB SSD Promo 2GB RAM 2 CPU cores 25GB SSD space 1TB bandwidth 1Gbps uplink 1x IPv4 address OpenVZ/SolusVM Buffalo, NY $40/Year Order here 3GB SSD Promo 3GB RAM 4 CPU cores 35GB SSD Space 1TB bandwidth 1Gbps uplink 1x IPv4 address OpenVZ/SolusVM Buffalo, NY $48/Year Order here 1GB Promo 1GB RAM 3 CPU cores 100GB disk space 2TB Bandwidth 1Gbps uplink 1x IPv4 address OpenVZ/SolusVM Los Angeles, LA $35/Year Order here 2GB Promo 2GB RAM 4 CPU cores 150GB disk space 3TB Bandwidth 1Gbps uplink 1x IPv4 address OpenVZ/SolusVM Los Angeles, LA $45/Year Order here FtpIt currently accepts payments via PayPal, Credit and Debit Cards (via PayPal) and Bitcoins (via Bitpay). As for refunds, according to their ToS “All Payments to FtpIt are Non-Refundable”. They do however offer a 99.9% uptime…

These offers are both available in six locations across the continental USA! ChicagoVPS has been focussing on the SSD-based VPS market since last year. Chris tells me he is the first to offer an SSD-based 2GB ever for this price. The 3GB offer includes 100GB of SSD-cached disk space, so that shouldn’t be too slow either. They’re using host nodes with dual CPUs and the Intel 520 SSD for their pure SSD nodes. Orders will be set up instantly, so you can get started right after ordering! If you sign up, or are already a customer, do leave a review below. The offers OpenVZ SSD-Cached  3GB RAM 100GB disk space 2TB bandwidth 1Gbps uplink 1x IPv4 address OpenVZ/SolusVM $21/quarter Available in six locations Order here OpenVZ Pure SSD  2GB RAM 15GB SSD disk space 2TB bandwidth 1Gbps uplink 1x IPv4 address OpenVZ/SolusVM $30/year Available in six locations Order here ChicagoVPS accept payments via major Credit Cards, and by personal check, cashier’s check, Paypal, electronic check, or money order. Their refunds policy states that “Refunds are subject to approval by ChicagoVPS on a case by case basis”. ChicagoVPS guarantees a 99.9% uptime with all services. Free central backups, free automated weekly node backups and free DNS hosting are all included. For more information, take a look at their Terms of Service. Network Information: Los Angeles: 198.23.128.127 Buffalo: 75.127.3.3 Chicago: 206.217.137.110 Atlanta: 198.46.150.130 New Jersey: 199.188.100.34 Dallas: 172.245.57.2

Radoslav sent in three special offers for Christmas, all packing a lot of bang-for-buck including some very nice pure SSD offers! 512MB SSD 512MB RAM 2 CPU Cores 10GB Disk space Pure SSD disk 2TB Bandwidth 1Gbps uplink 1x IPv4 address OpenVZ/SolusVM Chicago, IL, USA $2/Month | Order 1GB SSD 1GB RAM 4 CPU Cores 15GB Disk space Pure SSD disk 1TB Bandwidth 1Gbps uplink 1x IPv4 address OpenVZ/SolusVM Chicago, IL, USA $4/Month | Order 3GB SSD-Cached 3GB RAM 4 CPU Cores 50GB Disk space SSD-Cached disk 2TB Bandwidth 1Gbps uplink 1x IPv4 address OpenVZ/SolusVM Los Angeles, CA, USA $7/Month  | Order These offers are available in Los Angeles, California and Chicago, Illinois, depending on which offer you choose. FtpIt started in January 2013 and has been offered twice since that time. Check out their last offer to read more about them. If you need a BIG server for LITTLE money, this is the time to order with FtpIt! More offers inside!   1GB SSD-Cached 1GB RAM 2 CPU Cores 35GB Disk space SSD-Cached disk 1TB Bandwidth 1Gbps uplink 1x IPv4 address OpenVZ/SolusVM Los Angeles, CA, USA $3.99/Month | Order 2GB SSD-Cached 2GB RAM 2 CPU Cores 50GB Disk space SSD-Cached disk 1TB Bandwidth 1Gbps uplink 1x IPv4 address OpenVZ/SolusVM Los Angeles, CA, USA $4.99/Month | Order 2GB SSD 2GB RAM 4 CPU Cores 30GB Disk space Pure SSD disk 2TB Bandwidth 1Gbps uplink 1x IPv4 address OpenVZ/SolusVM Chicago, IL, USA $7/Month | Order Network Tests Location: Los Angeles, California with Quadranet via ColoCrossing Test IP: 192.3.23.126 Download File: http://192.3.23.126/100mb.test

Nick, from RamNode, sends in a coupon for a massive 42% discount of off all their plans! We’ve listed 10 of their plans below for your convenience. 128MB SVZ v2 128MB RAM 128MB vSwap 1 CPU Core @ 3.3GHz+ 10GB SSD Disk space 500GB Bandwidth 1Gbps uplink 1x IPv4 address 16x IPv6 address OpenVZ/SolusVM Coupon: black42 $13.92/Year | Order ATL Order SEA | Order AMS 256MB SKVM 256MB RAM 1 CPU Core @ 3.3GHz+ 5GB SSD Disk space 1TB Bandwidth 1Gbps uplink 1x IPv4 address 16x IPv6 address KVM/SolusVM Coupon: black42 $3.48/Month | Order ATL Order SEA | Order AMS Atlanta based RamNode LLC have been featured a few times before. RamNode are using Intel Ivy and Sandy Bridge Processors, Samsung, Intel, and Kingston SSDs, WD and Seagate Enterprise HDDs, LSI RAID cards. They recently came first in LEB 2013 Q3 Top Providers poll.  RamNode offers DDOS protected IPv4 addresses in both Atlanta and Seattle. For a list of their OS templates, please check here. All their non-SSD offers are SSD-cached, so they should benefit from the speed of SSD as well. Reviews about RamNode have been very positive and from my own experience I can also tell you these servers are rock-solid! You’re welcome to share your own experiences in the comments.   256MB SVZ v2 256MB RAM 256MB vSwap 1 CPU Core @ 3.3GHz+ 20GB SSD Disk space 1TB Bandwidth 1Gbps uplink 1x IPv4 address 16x IPv6 address OpenVZ/SolusVM Coupon: black42 $7.40/Quarter | Order ATL Order SEA | Order AMS 512MB SVZ v2 512MB RAM 512MB vSwap 2 CPU Cores @ 3.3GHz+ 40GB SSD Disk space 2TB Bandwidth 1Gbps uplink 1x IPv4 address 16x…

FtpIT's VPSs are hosted in Buffalo,Chicago and LA, USA. Swap can be added by opening a ticket ** Each VPS comes with the following features:** SolusVM control panel 1Gbps fair share port speed INSTANT setup SSD promo 512 MB RAM 512MB RAM 10 GB SSD disk 2048 GB Bandwidth 2 CPU Cores 1 IPv4 OpenVZ/SolusVM Location: Chicago USA Price: $2/month Order link: https://secure.ftpit.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=27 ................................................ SSD promo 1 GB RAM 1024 MB RAM 15 GB SSD disk 1024 GB Bandwidth 4 CPU cores 1 IPv4 OpenVZ/SolusVM Location: Chicago USA Price: $4/month Order link: https://secure.ftpit.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=28 .............................................................. SSD promo 2 GB RAM 2048 MB RAM 30 GB SSD disk 2 TB Bandwidth 4 CPU cores 1 IPv4 OpenVZ/SolusVM Location: Chicago USA Price: $7/month Order link: https://secure.ftpit.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=25 Two offers at New York, as well: 1 GB RAM promo 1 GB RAM 35 GB HDD disk 1 TB Bandwidth 2 CPU cores 1 IPv4 OpenVZ/SolusVM Location: New York, USA Price: 3$/mo Order link: https://secure.ftpit.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=29 .................................................. 2 GB RAM promo 2 GB RAM 50 GB HDD disk 1 TB Bandwidth 2 CPU cores 1 IPv4 OpenVZ/SolusVM Location: New York, USA Price: $4/mo Order link: https://secure.ftpit.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=30 ..................................................... 2 GB SSD-Cached Promo 2048 MB RAM 2 CPU Cores 50 GB SSD-Cached Diskspace 1000GB Bandwidth 100Mbps Port 1 IPv4 Address OpenVZ/SolusVM Location: LA, USA Price: $4.99/month Order link: https://secure.ftpit.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=10 .......................................... 3 GB SSD-Cached Promo 3072 MB RAM 4 CPU Cores 50 GB SSD-Cached Diskspace 2000GB Bandwidth 100Mbps Port 1 IPv4 Address OpenVZ/SolusVM Location: LA, USA Price: $7/mo Order link: https://secure.ftpit.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=12 ...................................... 1 GB SSD-Cached Promo 1024MB RAM 2 CPU…

Mike, from VPSCheap.net, contacted us with two exclusive annual OpenVZ offfers hosted with Equinix in Chicago! 2 CPU cores 128MB RAM 256MB vSwap 10GB Disk space 10Mbps uplink Unmetered bandwidth 1x IPv4 address IPv6 on request OpenVZ/Custom Coupon code: OVZ1YEARLY $10/year | Order link 1 CPU core 256MB RAM 256 MB vSwap 5GB SSD Disk space 10Mbps uplink Unmetered bandwidth 1x IPv4 address IPv6 on request OpenVZ/Custom No coupon code $14/year | Order link VPSCheap.net’s domain has been registered since 2010 as has the company (in Illinois). They have been featured several times before on LowEndBox.com. Their servers pack one of the following CPUs: E3-1230, E3-1270, E5-1620, or E5-2620. Depending on the server, it has either 4 or 8 hard drives or SSD drives, in RAID10. Bandwidth is unmetered at 10Mbps, which is really a pretty good deal for the price you pay. Their control panel is integrated into the billing panel, so you can conveniently manage everything from one place.   Payment methods accepted are PayPal, Google Checkout, and credit cards. I assume Google Checkout is going to disappear soon, as it is being discontinued by Google. As I wrote before, this offers is hosted with Equinix in Chicago, IL, USA. VPSCheap.net have their own IPs from ARIN. No refunds are given. TL;DR ToS: “No torrents, no TOR, IRC is allowed only if customer does not cause issues.” Give their full Terms of Service a read before you order. Network test IPv4: 199.175.48.1 Mike notes that no network test file has been given, considering you get 10Mbps unlimited. A test file on a 1Gbps port…

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DirectSpace has announced they have upgraded all previous OpenVZ VPSs with new SSD storage. Let's take a close look at the performance between these two products.   Old HyperSSD DSVPS New Upgraded DSVPS CPU Core 1x - - Storage Space 20GB SSD 20GB HDD 20GB SSD Guaranteed Ram 512MB 512MB 512MB SWAP 128MB 256MB 256MB Burst Ram 640MB 768MB 768MB Bandwidth Transfer 750GB Monthly - - Backup Features Daily Backups - - VPS Control Panel SolusVM & OpenVZ - - IP Address and Transit 1 IPv4 IP, 2 IPv6 IPs - - Uplinks 2x1Gbps Node - - Price $20/yr $15/yr $15/yr Link BUY HERE BUY HERE BUY HERE   Old DSVPS HyperSSD Fetching System Informaion ./+o+- [email protected] yyyyy- -yyyyyy+ OS: Ubuntu 12.10 quantal ://+//////-yyyyyyo Kernel: x86_64 Linux 2.6.32-042stab079.5 .++ .:/++++++/-.+sss/` Uptime: 1h 37m .:++o: /++++++++/:--:/- Packages: 621 o:+o+:++.`..```.-/oo+++++/ Shell: bash 4.2.37 .:+o:+o/. `+sssoo+/ Disk: 634M / 21G (3%) .++/+:+oo+o:` /sssooo. CPU: Intel Xeon CPU E5410 @ 2.333GHz /+++//+:`oo+o /::--:. RAM: 39MB / 512MB \+/+o+++`o++o ++////. .++.o+++oo+:` /dddhhh. .+.o+oo:. `oddhhhh+ \+.++o+o``-````.:ohdhhhhh+ `:o+++ `ohhhhhhhhyo++os: .o:`.syhhhhhhh/.oo++o` /osyyyyyyo++ooo+++/ ````` +oo+++o\: `oo++. Starting I/O Tests bs=64k count=4k 4096+0 records in 4096+0 records out 268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 2.87655 s, 93.3 MB/s 64k count=16k 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.51689 s, 143 MB/s 512k count=4k 4096+0 records in 4096+0 records out 2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 175.004 s, 12.3 MB/s bs=1M count=1k 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.30252 s, 147 MB/s bs=64k count=16k 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB)…

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