I suspect that the two SSD are on different levels. Linode has higher standards. I don't know if the following benchmarks are real, but if it is we're talking

I suspect that the two SSD are on different levels. Linode has higher standards. I don't know if the following benchmarks are real, but if it is we're talking about really different hardware (780 Mb/s vs 250 Mb/s) http://serverbear.com/2424-linode-2gb-ssd-linode http://serverbear.com/2424-linode-2gb-ssd-linode http://serverbear.com/1990-2gb-ssd--2-cpu-digitalocean http://serverbear.com/1990-2gb-ssd--2-cpu-digitalocean Maybe someone with both accounts can do a quick benchmark to verify or deny this data.