# SSD Benchmarks (using ACT) **URL:** https://discuss.aerospike.com/c/benchmarks/act-ssd-benchmarks/9.md [Latest](https://discuss.aerospike.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://discuss.aerospike.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://discuss.aerospike.com/tags.md) --- ## [About the SSD Benchmarks (using ACT) category](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/about-the-act-ssd-benchmarks-category/30)
**Author:** [@kporter](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/kporter)\ **Replies:** 0
These benchmarks use the Aerospike Certification Tool (ACT) to evaluate SSDs for use with Aerospike. Aerospike uses the ACT Benchmark Tool for SSD benchmarks. Not all SSDs can handle the high volume of transactions requ… --- ## [How to post the ACT result to the SSD Certification page?](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/how-to-post-the-act-result-to-the-ssd-certification-page/9642)
**Author:** [@Duo](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/Duo)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [October 7, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/how-to-post-the-act-result-to-the-ssd-certification-page/9642 "2025-10-07T20:47:15Z")
Hi guys, I’m using the ACT 6.2 to do the Aerospike workload qualification. I have some questions, could anyone kindly help me on these? As for the SSD Certification on the SSD Certification page , what’s the configur… --- ## [How can i run benchmark using only 1.5 KB objects](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/how-can-i-run-benchmark-using-only-1-5-kb-objects/9412)
**Author:** [@\_Jin\_Park](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/_Jin_Park)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 21, 2022, 10:42am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/how-can-i-run-benchmark-using-only-1-5-kb-objects/9412 "2022-05-21T10:42:54Z")
Hi. I installed ACT 6.4 in my server. I have 2 question related with benchmark config and result. How can i run using only 1.5KB objects? Aerospike said used 1.5K blocks from ssd certification document. These device… --- ## [Trial key for Aerospike VS Scylla benchmark](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/trial-key-for-aerospike-vs-scylla-benchmark/8809)
**Author:** [@Boris](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/Boris)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [October 8, 2021, 5:31pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/trial-key-for-aerospike-vs-scylla-benchmark/8809 "2021-10-08T17:31:16Z")
I have found very interesting comparison Aerospike VS Cassandra. Aerospike looks very interesting however there are still some open questions. For example Scylla says they faster than Cassandra in 2-5 times. Another poin… --- ## [How can I get the result table?](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/how-can-i-get-the-result-table/7192)
**Author:** [@SHRYU](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/SHRYU)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2020, 4:59am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/how-can-i-get-the-result-table/7192 "2020-03-06T04:59:04Z")
Hi guys. I installed ACT 5.3 in my server and ready for run. I wanna get ACT result table like in this page’s PCIe/NVMe-Based Flash section. How can I get the Speed(tps) and Endurance column result in my SSD? Act Github… --- ## [Intel Optane DC P4800X (NVMe) ACT results](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/intel-optane-dc-p4800x-nvme-act-results/5360)
**Author:** [@nblievers](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/nblievers)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2018, 1:40am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/intel-optane-dc-p4800x-nvme-act-results/5360 "2018-07-30T01:40:46Z")
This part of the forum doesn’t seem to get a lot of traffic, but it is that time of the cycle where we are starting to look at options for new drives, so there are a few I’m testing out, and I’ll post results for some of… --- ## [Intel P3600 Results](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/intel-p3600-results/3464)
**Author:** [@Bikearni](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/Bikearni)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 30, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/intel-p3600-results/3464 "2016-09-30T21:55:46Z")
Are there any results using the intel p3600? Thanks, Arndt --- ## [Samsung SM863 ACT results](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/samsung-sm863-act-results/3149)
**Author:** [@nblievers](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/nblievers)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2016, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/samsung-sm863-act-results/3149 "2016-07-29T14:08:31Z")
We recently ran some ACT benchmarks on the SM863, specifically, this drive: MZ7KM1T9HAJM First, our configuration: Drive: Samsung SM863 - 1.8TB Drive Firmware Version: GXM1003Q System: Dell R720 with PERC H710P Mini (… --- ## [Number of queues and threads per queue for 150x](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/number-of-queues-and-threads-per-queue-for-150x/2482)
**Author:** [@patryk](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/patryk)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/number-of-queues-and-threads-per-queue-for-150x/2482 "2016-02-10T19:25:16Z")
Hi, We’d like to test our SSDs with very high traffic e.g. 70x or even 150x, but when we set: num-queues: 2 threads-per-queue: 8 read-reqs-per-sec: 300000 write-reqs-per-sec: 150000 we get ERROR: too many read reqs q… --- ## [Samsung 845DC Pro 400GB - full benchmark (up to 7x at 0.663$/GiB, 10 DWPD)](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/samsung-845dc-pro-400gb-full-benchmark-up-to-7x-at-0-663-gib-10-dwpd/2298)
**Author:** [@ManuelSchmidt](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/ManuelSchmidt)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 21, 2015, 8:50pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/samsung-845dc-pro-400gb-full-benchmark-up-to-7x-at-0-663-gib-10-dwpd/2298 "2015-12-21T20:50:57Z")
After several weeks of severe benchmarking, we’d like to share our findings on the Samsung 845DC PRO. We purchased multiple drives, tortured them under various load levels in different setups and found that they seem to … --- ## [Benchmark using YCSB with Aerospike](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/benchmark-using-ycsb-with-aerospike/2225)
**Author:** [@phanimv](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/phanimv)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2015, 5:57pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/benchmark-using-ycsb-with-aerospike/2225 "2015-12-08T17:57:53Z")
Hi there, I have installed AS 3.6.4 and also installed and built YCSB for AS binding, I saw articles that say YCSB supports AS, but I couldnt get a detailed steps on how to control and change the load (the amount of dat… --- ## [Intel 750 1200Gb benchmark results](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/intel-750-1200gb-benchmark-results/1869)
**Author:** [@b\_a\_t](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/b_a_t)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/intel-750-1200gb-benchmark-results/1869 "2015-11-10T23:26:03Z")
We’ve evaluated new Intel SSD 750 PCIe 1.2Tb in our test environment and overal performance of it is very good, comparable to the Intel’s P3xxx series. Of course, it should be kept in mind that this is consumer grade SSD… --- ## [ACT: 'Trans' section in the output of ACT](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/act-trans-section-in-the-output-of-act/1697)
**Author:** [@ashishbhutani](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/ashishbhutani)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 7, 2015, 5:37am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/act-trans-section-in-the-output-of-act/1697 "2015-09-07T05:37:52Z")
Hi I had one doubt about interpreting the output. Is it worth looking at the ‘trans’ section ? In my case, latencies in ‘trans’ section 80% of requests are greater than 1 ms. But in the ‘device’ section, only 0.90% are… --- ## [Certification results for SSDs Installed with RAID vs. Directly attached Storage](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/certification-results-for-ssds-installed-with-raid-vs-directly-attached-storage/1411)
**Author:** [@haniq](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/haniq)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 26, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/certification-results-for-ssds-installed-with-raid-vs-directly-attached-storage/1411 "2015-06-26T20:39:44Z")
Hi We are moving to a new datacenter that only support servers with RAID controllers attached. Our current aerospike servers have SSDs directly attached to motherboard. (Both Current and new servers use the same type of… --- ## [Raid vs directly attached ssds](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/raid-vs-directly-attached-ssds/1409)
**Author:** [@haniq](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/haniq)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 24, 2015, 3:04pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/raid-vs-directly-attached-ssds/1409 "2015-06-24T15:04:25Z")
Hi, We are migrating to a new datacenter that only support servers with RAID attached to it. Thus, i am comparing old server certification testing with new. Old server had SSD disk directly attached to motherboard. Also… --- ## [WANTED: Intel 750 Series 400G/1200G at 1$/GB benchmark?](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/wanted-intel-750-series-400g-1200g-at-1-gb-benchmark/1286)
**Author:** [@ManuelSchmidt](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/ManuelSchmidt)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 18, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/wanted-intel-750-series-400g-1200g-at-1-gb-benchmark/1286 "2015-05-18T22:58:18Z")
Hello If anybody happens to have a few of the recently (Early 2015) released Intel 750 Series PCIE SSDs available, could you post benchmark results here? I am very interested in those SSDs because of their affordable pri… --- ## [Intel S3500 480G SSD write ONLY 20000TPS, is this ok?](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/intel-s3500-480g-ssd-write-only-20000tps-is-this-ok/770)
**Author:** [@QLeelulu](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/QLeelulu)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [May 7, 2015, 1:36am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/intel-s3500-480g-ssd-write-only-20000tps-is-this-ok/770 "2015-05-07T01:36:21Z")
hi, all we use intel S3500 in our server, cpu: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz ssd: intel s3500 480G \* 2 raid controller: Serial Attached SCSI controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS2308 PCI-Express Fusio… --- ## [Problem running ACT on GCE using local SSD disk (CE 3.4.0) \[Released\] \[Resolved\]](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/problem-running-act-on-gce-using-local-ssd-disk-ce-3-4-0-released-resolved/492)
**Author:** [@IlyaM](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/IlyaM)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 14, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/problem-running-act-on-gce-using-local-ssd-disk-ce-3-4-0-released-resolved/492 "2015-04-14T00:41:34Z")
Hello, I’m try to benchmark local SSD disks at GCE (google compute engine - see About local SSDs | Compute Engine Documentation | Google Cloud ). I can initialize SSD disk with actprep successully but when I try to r… --- ## [High latency in benchmarking while using Map to store data](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/high-latency-in-benchmarking-while-using-map-to-store-data/1129)
**Author:** [@leonardo](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/leonardo)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2015, 7:06am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/high-latency-in-benchmarking-while-using-map-to-store-data/1129 "2015-04-08T07:06:21Z")
Hi, I am doing benchmarking (my own scripts) using map as data structure. I am storing map with 10 keys inside a bin. I am observing high latency for it (1.2% is greater than 1ms). Following are details about benchmarki… --- ## [ACT Benchmarking standard](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/act-benchmarking-standard/1099)
**Author:** [@ravish](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/ravish)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2015, 7:11am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/act-benchmarking-standard/1099 "2015-03-26T07:11:59Z")
What benchmarking standard aerospike certification tool follows (such as SPC, SPEC or SNIA or any other) to certify SSDs? ACT measures the performance on the basis of latency. Is it also measure performance in number of… --- ## [ACT version 3.0](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/act-version-3-0/1033)
**Author:** [@OmarHuang](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/OmarHuang)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/act-version-3-0/1033 "2015-03-10T19:28:28Z")
Hi all, I’m using this tool for some time now. But now i find out that version of this tool has been updated to 3.0, And i can’t find any update note. Does anyone know what major change of this tool or note? Thanks