gcp8vcpu24gbfiowrite Intel Xeon testing on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. PersistentDisk: Processor: Intel Xeon @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Google, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 16384 MB RAM, Disk: 115GB PersistentDisk, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-64-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4 Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 1MB - Disk Target: / - Result: IOPS IOPS > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 56 |========================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 1MB - Disk Target: / - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 12.20 |======================================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: / - Result: IOPS IOPS > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 6 |=========================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: / - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 13.12 |======================================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: / - Result: IOPS IOPS > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 163 |========================================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 4MB - Disk Target: / - Result: IOPS IOPS > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 3 |=========================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 4MB - Disk Target: / - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 13.10 |======================================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 8KB - Disk Target: / - Result: IOPS IOPS > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 155 |========================================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 8KB - Disk Target: / - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 1.25 |======================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 8MB - Disk Target: / - Result: IOPS IOPS > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 1 |=========================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 8MB - Disk Target: / - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 13.11 |======================================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: / - Result: IOPS IOPS > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 142 |========================================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: / - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 2.28 |======================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 16MB - Disk Target: / - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 13.12 |======================================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 32KB - Disk Target: / - Result: IOPS IOPS > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 121 |========================================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 32KB - Disk Target: / - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 3.88 |======================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 32MB - Disk Target: / - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 13.10 |======================================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 64KB - Disk Target: / - Result: IOPS IOPS > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 93 |========================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 64KB - Disk Target: / - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 5.96 |======================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 64MB - Disk Target: / - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 13.11 |======================================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 128KB - Disk Target: / - Result: IOPS IOPS > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 63 |========================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 128KB - Disk Target: / - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 8.18 |======================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 128MB - Disk Target: / - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 13.09 |======================================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 256KB - Disk Target: / - Result: IOPS IOPS > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 39 |========================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 256KB - Disk Target: / - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 7.84 |======================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 512KB - Disk Target: / - Result: IOPS IOPS > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 21 |========================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 512KB - Disk Target: / - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 11.39 |=======================================================