LOL. Fast SCSI spinning disks are 200 IOPS. If you RAID 10 of them then you get 2000 IOPS.
Consumer SSDs are now at 50-100K IOPS. How on earth do people think that 2000 IOPS is "marginally better" than 50000? And I am just comparing one SSD to a RAID array.
I think you just must be completely unaware of random access disk performance and the massive disparity there.
The results were close because either the Linode host he was testing on actually had SSD storage or more likely because of some caching which indicates that the benchmark did not actually test random reads or writes or seeks.
Consumer SSDs are now at 50-100K IOPS. How on earth do people think that 2000 IOPS is "marginally better" than 50000? And I am just comparing one SSD to a RAID array.
I think you just must be completely unaware of random access disk performance and the massive disparity there.
The results were close because either the Linode host he was testing on actually had SSD storage or more likely because of some caching which indicates that the benchmark did not actually test random reads or writes or seeks.