Survey: CPU and VM boot time

Basically the thread is opened by @Insurgo to tell us about :

Most of the ssd that i bought and know still use lbaf 0 which is 512b.
In the thread it’s explained that one need to change to lbaf 1 which use 4kb

for further reference see here Umstieg auf Advanced-Format-Festplatten mit 4K-Sektoren | Seagate Deutschland

After reading and some testing, in the same thread i post a workround how to run qubes with 4k support, changing the lbaf alone already made a significant performance improvement.

and in this benchmark, i share what the difference using a default (qubes os + 512b template provided by qubes) vs ( qubes os with 4k drive + 4k template builded by me)

I can’t say this is overclocking but it is tweaking.

it’s the same script we use in this thread, the difference is I set up only 5 times.

2 Likes