Hi there,
Here are my results for the SanDisk Cruzer Blade 16GB tests. The unit seems to behave a bit better than the smaller ones already in the list. The USB ID is identical to those of the smaller ones, however.
At first, flashbench -a gave an uneven list of diff values. After reading that amount of writes can make a difference, I zeroed the (brand new) drive to all zeroes: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx bs=4M. I then got the following: sudo flashbench -a /dev/sdf --blocksize=1024
align 4294967296 pre 748µs on 1.09ms post 756µs diff 335µs align 2147483648 pre 749µs on 1.16ms post 751µs diff 406µs align 1073741824 pre 748µs on 1.15ms post 751µs diff 402µs align 536870912 pre 746µs on 1.15ms post 750µs diff 401µs align 268435456 pre 752µs on 1.16ms post 752µs diff 408µs align 134217728 pre 738µs on 1.15ms post 756µs diff 406µs align 67108864 pre 749µs on 1.14ms post 749µs diff 395µs align 33554432 pre 753µs on 1.14ms post 752µs diff 392µs align 16777216 pre 746µs on 1.14ms post 754µs diff 394µs align 8388608 pre 745µs on 1.13ms post 747µs diff 388µs align 4194304 pre 744µs on 983µs post 747µs diff 237µs align 2097152 pre 752µs on 885µs post 744µs diff 137µs align 1048576 pre 753µs on 893µs post 753µs diff 140µs align 524288 pre 752µs on 880µs post 739µs diff 134µs align 262144 pre 750µs on 891µs post 757µs diff 137µs align 65536 pre 748µs on 888µs post 750µs diff 139µs align 32768 pre 749µs on 883µs post 745µs diff 137µs align 16384 pre 750µs on 890µs post 751µs diff 139µs align 8192 pre 745µs on 803µs post 748µs diff 56.8µs align 4096 pre 747µs on 804µs post 753µs diff 53.5µs align 2048 pre 746µs on 803µs post 745µs diff 57.3µs
Leading to an assumption of erase size of 4M and page size of 8K.
With a sequence of
sudo flashbench -O --erasesize=$[4*1024*1024] --blocksize=$[8*1024] /dev/sdf --open-au-nr=X
Where X increased linearly from 2 to 10 I determined the cutoff at AU=8
Because of: AU=2 4MiB 22M/s 2MiB 21.9M/s 1MiB 21.9M/s 512KiB 21.6M/s 256KiB 20.9M/s 128KiB 19.3M/s 64KiB 18.7M/s 32KiB 16.2M/s 16KiB 11.4M/s 8KiB 6.99M/s
AU=7 4MiB 22M/s 2MiB 21.9M/s 1MiB 21.8M/s 512KiB 21.6M/s 256KiB 20.6M/s 128KiB 19.1M/s 64KiB 18.3M/s 32KiB 15.7M/s 16KiB 10.8M/s 8KiB 6.58M/s
AU=8 4MiB 14.4M/s 2MiB 21.4M/s 1MiB 21.8M/s 512KiB 21.6M/s 256KiB 20.6M/s 128KiB 19.1M/s 64KiB 18.2M/s 32KiB 15.6M/s 16KiB 10.7M/s 8KiB 6.47M/s
AU=9 4MiB 11.3M/s 2MiB 7M/s 1MiB 4.58M/s 512KiB 5.15M/s 256KiB 5.4M/s 128KiB 4.96M/s 64KiB 5.84M/s 32KiB 5.17M/s 16KiB 4.91M/s 8KiB 3.7M/s
Random performance sucks at smaller sizes. Results nearly the same for AU=1 through 6
sudo flashbench -O --erasesize=$[4*1024*1024] --blocksize=$[8*1024] /dev/sdf --random --open-au-nr=6 [sudo] password for gaby: 4MiB 22.2M/s 2MiB 22M/s 1MiB 22M/s 512KiB 20M/s 256KiB 9.8M/s 128KiB 2.69M/s 64KiB 1.12M/s 32KiB 563K/s 16KiB 285K/s 8KiB 132K/s
If there's anything else I can test/check, let me know?
Regards, Gaby Schilders