Update Standard.json for OsDisk

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Update Standard.json for OsDisk #24

Open jasbryan opened 5 years ago

jasbryan commented 5 years ago

Modified OS disk to SSD drive.

jasbryan commented 5 years ago

It is working now. Please give it a try and let me know what you think.

ecalder6 commented 5 years ago

Gave it a shot. I'm not sure if the VM is using an SSD based on the benchmark below. What do you think?

benchmark

jasbryan commented 5 years ago

Looks pretty badass to me. I have been running it with the SSD for a few weeks. Runs great. You really need it for big games. I play Star Citizen and it is going to the drive all the time. I wish I could force more into RAM since these VMs have so much. There are even faster SSD options available but I have not compared them.

jasbryan commented 5 years ago

Meant to request merge not to close it.. I am new to GitHub..

ecalder6 commented 5 years ago

No worries. I'll test a bit more and merge it.

ecalder6 commented 5 years ago

Here's the speed I got with the current code:

I don't think changing the storage account type to StandardSSD_LRS changes the disk to SSD. I'm pretty sure you'll have to deploy NVv2 VMs for SSD: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-new-gpu-enabled-nvv2-azure-vms-for-graphics-intensive-applications/

jasbryan commented 5 years ago

When I am running with this configuration my Disk shows standard SSD. IT is not the new, faster advanced SSDs but the standard ones.

ecalder6 commented 5 years ago

My tests show that there isn't a difference in speed to justify the change. Feel free to do some speed comparisons yourself to show the performance gain.

jasbryan commented 5 years ago

I ran comparison tests with an HDD and an SSD mounted and there were noticeable speed increases. Here is the comparisons.

MultipleDiskReport.zip

ecalder6 commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the comparison! How did you setup your test environment? Are both C and E drive managed disks?

jasbryan commented 5 years ago

I beleive they are both managed disks. I just added the HDD drive and then ran the test on both. So the C drive was still running the OS during the test and was still much faster.

ecalder6 commented 5 years ago

Nice. So just to confirm, C drive is the Standard SSD that's deployed using your change, and E drive is the Standard HDD that you've added through the portal/powershell?

If so, my test methodology is a bit different. I've deployed a VM using your changes and a VM using the current code and compared the speed of the two C drives using CrystalDiskMark. Could you try testing it this way (don't really care about the software used) to make sure the drive deployed with your change performs better than the drive deployed currently? I could also test again as well when I get a chance.