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EBS performance with 4k PIOPS vs no PIOPS...not impressed.

No PIOPS

$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=/mnt/data/my_file bs=1k count=5000000
5000000+0 records in
5000000+0 records out
5120000000 bytes (5.1 GB) copied, 460.399 s, 11.1 MB/s

PIOPS

$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=/mnt/data/my_file bs=1k count=5000000
5000000+0 records in
5000000+0 records out
5120000000 bytes (5.1 GB) copied, 432.418 s, 11.8 MB/s

My 2012 MBP + Retina

$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=/mnt/data/my_file bs=1k count=5000000
5000000+0 records in
5000000+0 records out
5120000000 bytes transferred in 351.990001 secs (14545868 bytes/sec)
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