TELEMETRY & HARDWARE BENCHMARKS

Performance & Power Consumption Benchmarks

Real-world measurements of storage read/write I/O (fio), internal network throughput (iperf3), and 24/7 power draw across the mini PC server cluster.

Tier 0 (Fast NVMe AI/DB Scratch)

Samsung 990 Pro 2TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 (Titan Rig)

Sequential Read7450 MB/s
Sequential Write6900 MB/s
Random 4K IOPS:1,200,000
Access latency:0.015 ms
Tier 1 (Optane / NVMe ZFS L2ARC)

Intel Optane / Solidigm NVMe Ultra-Low Latency

Sequential Read3200 MB/s
Sequential Write2800 MB/s
Random 4K IOPS:580,000
Access latency:0.025 ms
Tier 2 (ZFS RAID-Z2 48.8TB Storage Pool)

4x Seagate IronWolf Pro 12TB Enterprise Array

Sequential Read780 MB/s
Sequential Write620 MB/s
Random 4K IOPS:18,500
Access latency:4.2 ms
💡 Test methodology: Measured with fio (Flexible I/O Tester) using direct=1, ioengine=libaio, iodepth=32, runtime=60s on Proxmox VE 8.2 (Debian 12).