Hi @postfrog66 !
Thank you for your help, Armbian is now up and running. I moved the system on my NVME and now my Rockpi is really fast.
This is a picture of my Rockpi with the big heatsink and the extension board mounted. It is really not intuitive and not very cute too but all work really well.
works nicely with the new power-supply.
Could not figure out the mechanics yet…
I use a Samsung 970EVO witrh 500Gbytes and tested the performance today. I think it does not yet run at full speed:
sudo hdparm -Tt --direct /dev/nvme0n1
/dev/nvme0n1:
Timing O_DIRECT cached reads: 614 MB in 2.00 seconds = 306.61 MB/sec
Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 920 MB in 3.00 seconds = 306.39 MB/sec
carsten@rockpi4b:~$ sysbench --test=fileio --file-total-size=2G --file-test-mode=rndrw --init-rng=on --max-time=300 --max-requests=0 run
sysbench 0.4.12: multi-threaded system evaluation benchmark
Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 1
Initializing random number generator from timer.
Extra file open flags: 0
128 files, 16Mb each
2Gb total file size
Block size 16Kb
Number of random requests for random IO: 0
Read/Write ratio for combined random IO test: 1.50
Periodic FSYNC enabled, calling fsync() each 100 requests.
Calling fsync() at the end of test, Enabled.
Using synchronous I/O mode
Doing random r/w test
Threads started!
Time limit exceeded, exiting…
Done.
Operations performed: 297300 Read, 198200 Write, 634191 Other = 1129691 Total
Read 4.5364Gb Written 3.0243Gb Total transferred 7.5607Gb (25.807Mb/sec)
1651.66 Requests/sec executed
Test execution summary:
total time: 300.0009s
total number of events: 495500
total time taken by event execution: 31.3085
per-request statistics:
min: 0.01ms
avg: 0.06ms
max: 15.18ms
approx. 95 percentile: 0.18ms
Threads fairness:
events (avg/stddev): 495500.0000/0.00
execution time (avg/stddev): 31.3085/0.00
Hi !
There are my results :
rockpi@rockpi4b:~$ sudo hdparm -Tt --direct /dev/nvme0n1
[sudo] password for rockpi:
/dev/nvme0n1:
Timing O_DIRECT cached reads: 1020 MB in 2.00 seconds = 510.00 MB/sec
Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 1382 MB in 3.00 seconds = 460.60 MB/sec
But for me the best app to test the speed of my NVME is iozone (NVME = WD Black):
rockpi@rockpi4b:~$ sudo iozone -e -I -a -s 100M -r 4k -r 16k -r 512k -r 1024k -r 16384k -i 0 -i 1 -i 2
Iozone: Performance Test of File I/O
Version $Revision: 3.429 $
Compiled for 64 bit mode.
Build: linux
Contributors:William Norcott, Don Capps, Isom Crawford, Kirby Collins
Al Slater, Scott Rhine, Mike Wisner, Ken Goss
Steve Landherr, Brad Smith, Mark Kelly, Dr. Alain CYR,
Randy Dunlap, Mark Montague, Dan Million, Gavin Brebner,
Jean-Marc Zucconi, Jeff Blomberg, Benny Halevy, Dave Boone,
Erik Habbinga, Kris Strecker, Walter Wong, Joshua Root,
Fabrice Bacchella, Zhenghua Xue, Qin Li, Darren Sawyer,
Vangel Bojaxhi, Ben England, Vikentsi Lapa.
Run began: Tue Mar 12 08:34:56 2019
Include fsync in write timing
O_DIRECT feature enabled
Auto Mode
File size set to 102400 kB
Record Size 4 kB
Record Size 16 kB
Record Size 512 kB
Record Size 1024 kB
Record Size 16384 kB
Command line used: iozone -e -I -a -s 100M -r 4k -r 16k -r 512k -r 1024k -r 16384k -i 0 -i 1 -i 2
Output is in kBytes/sec
Time Resolution = 0.000001 seconds.
Processor cache size set to 1024 kBytes.
Processor cache line size set to 32 bytes.
File stride size set to 17 * record size.
random random bkwd record stride
kB reclen write rewrite read reread read write read rewrite read fwrite frewrite fread freread
102400 4 59325 84009 76919 77801 40893 79823
102400 16 130702 227024 213902 216338 120339 226025
102400 512 557596 590522 521821 522062 500256 576589
102400 1024 629537 641508 583415 600946 550795 644552
102400 16384 661427 694791 659492 659860 660166 681809
iozone test complete.
It’s a little bit slow compare to my NanopiPCT4 (XPG NVME) but the result can be compare to my RockPro64 (Samsung Evo 970 NVME).
This is the result I got on my RockPro64 with my Samsung Evo 970 :
rock@rockpro64:~$ sudo iozone -e -I -a -s 100M -r 4k -r 16k -r 512k -r 1024k -r 16384k -i 0 -i 1 -i 2
[sudo] password for rock:
Iozone: Performance Test of File I/O
Version $Revision: 3.429 $
Compiled for 64 bit mode.
Build: linuxContributors:William Norcott, Don Capps, Isom Crawford, Kirby Collins Al Slater, Scott Rhine, Mike Wisner, Ken Goss Steve Landherr, Brad Smith, Mark Kelly, Dr. Alain CYR, Randy Dunlap, Mark Montague, Dan Million, Gavin Brebner, Jean-Marc Zucconi, Jeff Blomberg, Benny Halevy, Dave Boone, Erik Habbinga, Kris Strecker, Walter Wong, Joshua Root, Fabrice Bacchella, Zhenghua Xue, Qin Li, Darren Sawyer, Vangel Bojaxhi, Ben England, Vikentsi Lapa. Run began: Tue Mar 12 08:48:01 2019 Include fsync in write timing O_DIRECT feature enabled Auto Mode File size set to 102400 kB Record Size 4 kB Record Size 16 kB Record Size 512 kB Record Size 1024 kB Record Size 16384 kB Command line used: iozone -e -I -a -s 100M -r 4k -r 16k -r 512k -r 1024k -r 16384k -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 Output is in kBytes/sec Time Resolution = 0.000001 seconds. Processor cache size set to 1024 kBytes. Processor cache line size set to 32 bytes. File stride size set to 17 * record size. random random bkwd record stride kB reclen write rewrite read reread read write read rewrite read fwrite frewrite fread freread 102400 4 82368 117913 145635 146582 52602 84380 102400 16 166460 238068 269713 271330 168286 235563 102400 512 590845 619712 572332 572707 557272 621562 102400 1024 616225 633981 578821 578426 572636 638544 102400 16384 676638 695671 657252 657771 656296 695662iozone test complete.
Hi !
Ok, I did the little recipe writed here KingSpec 128GB M.2 NVMe not found Debian+Ubuntu
and now the speed of my NVME increase a lot !!
rockpi@rockpi4b:~$ sudo iozone -e -I -a -s 100M -r 4k -r 16k -r 512k -r 1024k -r 16384k -i 0 -i 1 -i 2
[sudo] password for rockpi:
Iozone: Performance Test of File I/O
Version $Revision: 3.429 $
Compiled for 64 bit mode.
Build: linuxContributors:William Norcott, Don Capps, Isom Crawford, Kirby Collins Al Slater, Scott Rhine, Mike Wisner, Ken Goss Steve Landherr, Brad Smith, Mark Kelly, Dr. Alain CYR, Randy Dunlap, Mark Montague, Dan Million, Gavin Brebner, Jean-Marc Zucconi, Jeff Blomberg, Benny Halevy, Dave Boone, Erik Habbinga, Kris Strecker, Walter Wong, Joshua Root, Fabrice Bacchella, Zhenghua Xue, Qin Li, Darren Sawyer, Vangel Bojaxhi, Ben England, Vikentsi Lapa. Run began: Tue Mar 12 15:10:40 2019 Include fsync in write timing O_DIRECT feature enabled Auto Mode File size set to 102400 kB Record Size 4 kB Record Size 16 kB Record Size 512 kB Record Size 1024 kB Record Size 16384 kB Command line used: iozone -e -I -a -s 100M -r 4k -r 16k -r 512k -r 1024k -r 16384k -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 Output is in kBytes/sec Time Resolution = 0.000001 seconds. Processor cache size set to 1024 kBytes. Processor cache line size set to 32 bytes. File stride size set to 17 * record size. random random bkwd record stride kB reclen write rewrite read reread read write read rewrite read fwrite frewrite fread freread 102400 4 60903 103967 79528 82953 41992 85719 102400 16 142777 267881 247469 248952 123519 261772 102400 512 781774 910028 769780 770132 725685 878638 102400 1024 971169 1026856 920207 906010 788857 1059701 102400 16384 1125377 1226484 1208797 1208035 1205309 1164655iozone test complete.
Hi,
I did the same, but my results only improved at bit:
before:
sudo hdparm -Tt --direct /dev/nvme0n1
/dev/nvme0n1:
Timing O_DIRECT cached reads: 614 MB in 2.00 seconds = 306.61 MB/sec
Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 920 MB in 3.00 seconds = 306.39 MB/sec
after:
udo hdparm -Tt --direct /dev/nvme0n1
/dev/nvme0n1:
Timing O_DIRECT cached reads: 950 MB in 2.00 seconds = 474.42 MB/sec
Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 1316 MB in 3.00 seconds = 438.23 MB/sec
How can I install iozone?
Carsten
Hello !
To install iozone
sudo apt install iozone3
Cool, thx. I did not spoit ist is iozone3
here are my results (option -I dis give me an error, so I did not use it):
root@rockpi4b:/tmp# iozone -e -a -s 100M -r 4k -r 16k -r 512k -r 1024k -r 16384k -i 0 -i 1 -i 2
Iozone: Performance Test of File I/O
Version $Revision: 3.429 $
Compiled for 64 bit mode.
Build: linux
Contributors:William Norcott, Don Capps, Isom Crawford, Kirby Collins
Al Slater, Scott Rhine, Mike Wisner, Ken Goss
Steve Landherr, Brad Smith, Mark Kelly, Dr. Alain CYR,
Randy Dunlap, Mark Montague, Dan Million, Gavin Brebner,
Jean-Marc Zucconi, Jeff Blomberg, Benny Halevy, Dave Boone,
Erik Habbinga, Kris Strecker, Walter Wong, Joshua Root,
Fabrice Bacchella, Zhenghua Xue, Qin Li, Darren Sawyer,
Vangel Bojaxhi, Ben England, Vikentsi Lapa.
Run began: Wed Mar 13 12:59:10 2019
Include fsync in write timing
Auto Mode
File size set to 102400 kB
Record Size 4 kB
Record Size 16 kB
Record Size 512 kB
Record Size 1024 kB
Record Size 16384 kB
Command line used: iozone -e -a -s 100M -r 4k -r 16k -r 512k -r 1024k -r 16384k -i 0 -i 1 -i 2
Output is in kBytes/sec
Time Resolution = 0.000001 seconds.
Processor cache size set to 1024 kBytes.
Processor cache line size set to 32 bytes.
File stride size set to 17 * record size.
random random bkwd record stride
kB reclen write rewrite read reread read write read rewrite read fwrite frewrite fread freread
102400 4 1129045 1373941 1648500 1692926 1208573 1254668
102400 16 1299375 1589864 1835551 1931747 1421671 1461232
102400 512 985505 1355517 1283321 1452912 1359262 1572724
102400 1024 977517 1402778 1265571 1337655 1282953 1455931
102400 16384 1005955 1362626 1320420 1384915 1314086 1402176Hi Mike,
very good that you got that done. But what did you do in detail? I stand with a Samsung 960 nvme ssd facing the same problem?!?
Best thanks in advance !
Telekomiker
Also tried to connect the nvme directly to the board with the same issue
Yesterday arrived my new ROCK PI 4A v1.4 4GB with heatsink and m2 extension board.
I bought blindly Intel 660p M.2 1 TB SSD NVMe (111€) not verifing compatibility…
Not detected in ROCK PI 4 directly or via extension board.
Tested with Armbian, Debian and Ubuntu.
Powered by QC charger.
Tomorrow i expect PD charger. I hope its just a power issue.
PS: NVMe disk works in my old PC thru cheap PCI Express board.
It works! With issues.
After 3 days of tinkering and using PD charger up to 60W .
Its does not recognize same as in M.2 NVMe Intel 1TB 660P Not reconized on Ubuntu Server
BUT after few minutes, i did restart and there it was.
Posting here because I’m in the same situation… Intel 660p not being detected. If anyone figures out a reliable method, please do post it!
I guess it’s because 660P is a little too slow at cold start, like some microSD cards having similar issue RP4 will skip it at cold start (though it’s accessible once started from eMMC) but just fine when hot reboot. It could be fixable in the firmware.
No, i did not find solution how to detect it on cold boot.
Im using PD2 power brick, armbian from radxa download page and extension board as on picture:
@ O635789
Its not just after restart. I need to wait few minutes (to warm up?) and then restart.
If it were normal mini PC, I would return it. But I consider it “tinkering” board, so I’m willing to accept this peculiar behaviour.
PS: I believe I saw other RK3399 board(s) with this drive working on other forums.
Interesting. For now I’ll just use a standard ssd in a USB enclosure until a stable solution appears.
Are you referring that, you need to:
Is that correct?
Yes, that’s pretty much accurate. That was my first success with this drive under Debian.
Just reboot is not enough after cold start. I need to wait few minutes. Then I can restart as many times as I want.
Now I’m using Armbian 24/7 headless. Because I do have manual mounting in fstab, I’ll try to connesct thru ssh. If i’m not sucessfull I unplug USB-C from power adapter and immediatly plug back - and it works.
rockpi@rockpi4a:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
mmcblk0 179:0 0 3.7G 0 disk
└─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 3.5G 0 part /
zram0 254:0 0 50M 0 disk /var/log
nvme0n1 259:0 0 953.9G 0 disk
└─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 953.9G 0 part /mnt/m2
rockpi@rockpi4a:~$ sudo hdparm -t --direct /dev/nvme0n1
/dev/nvme0n1:
Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 2030 MB in 3.00 seconds = 676.54 MB/sec