It would still be good to call out the exact processor model, as the lowest end i5-1240P has half the L3 cache as the highest i7-1280P. Also I don't think it w

It would still be good to call out the exact processor model, as the lowest end i5-1240P has half the L3 cache as the highest i7-1280P. Also I don't think it was clear you were running "sysctl vm.drop_caches=3" between benchmarking runs of your optimizations. Your table seemed to indicate those were generic initial read/write benchmarks from either dd or hardparm. The site you linked to also had comments on it stating dd is not very good for benchmarking, suggesting fio & a different site[1]. 1. https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_Test_Disk_I/O_Performance https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_Test_Disk_I/O_Performance