Testing of diskspeed at various hosting companies on idle machines

disk_speed.txt

Command used for testing:
dd if=/dev/zero of=sb-io-test bs=1M count=1k conv=fdatasync && rm sb-io-test

Results sorted by best->top / worst->bottom

Herzner (1 cpu cloud machine)
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 1.23958 s, 866 MB/s

OVH Dedicated VmWare nVME
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 1.24378 s, 863 MB/s

OVH VPS full SSD nVME
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 1.24864 s, 860 MB/s

VmWare cloud + Infinidata F2260 
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.63112 seconds, 658 MB/s

Liquidweb VPS full SSD
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 2.07228 s, 518 MB/s

Liquidweb VPS full SSD
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 2.32053 s, 463 MB/s

BitLaunch VPS full SSD
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 2.70082 s, 398 MB/s

BuleAngelHost VPS full SSD
073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 2.85165 s, 377 MB/s

VmWare cloud + NetApp SAS (JKP Informatika - Novi Sad, Serbia)
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 4.26237 s, 252 MB/s

Liquidweb VPS full SSD
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 4.59836 s, 234 MB/s

VmWare cloud + CiscoHyperconverged (JKP Informatika - Novi Sad, Serbia)
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 5.03008 s, 213 MB/s

SSD virtual machine, unknown hypervisor (Photon VPS - Los Angeles, USA)
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 5.17119 s, 208 MB/s

LiquidWeb (supposigly SSD - Storm VPS)
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 5.9073 s, 182 MB/s

VmWare cloud + NetApp SATA (JKP Informatika - Novi Sad, Serbia)
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 6.56544 s, 164 MB/s

Amazon AWS t3.medium (Variable ECUs, 2 vCPUs, 2.5 GHz, Intel Skylake P-8175, 4 GiB memory, EBS only)
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 7.14516 s, 150 MB/s

HP ProLiant DL380 + SAS 10K 146 GB, 2 quad core CPU (JKP Informatika - Novi Sad, Serbia)
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 7.29666 s, 147 MB/s

Amazon AWS T1 micro (US East 1b)
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 15.8301 s, 67.8 MB/s

Blueangelhost non SSD
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 16.0513 s, 66.9 MB/s

KVM + SSD - (Contabo, Germany)
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 16.8203 s, 63.8 MB/s

Aliyun - China
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 19.6777 s, 54.6 MB/s

LiquidWeb (storm server - dedicated, unknown disc type)
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 20.031 s, 53.6 MB/s

Contabo (supposignly SSD):
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 30.0379 s, 35.7 MB/s

Azure VM SSD 3200 IOPS (Microsoft Azure, West EU datacenter) 
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 58.829 s, 18.3 MB/s

Supermicro (old PATA server)
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 70.6063 s, 15.2 MB/s