DiskSpd Can Help Identify Disk I/O Performance Issues for Your SQL Server Systems

"We need faster storage.” Sound familiar? Or what about "No, the storage is good; we need to tune the database." Often teams will have very different opinions about the root cause of a performance issue. How do you know who’s right?

Diskspd allows us to benchmark the raw performance of storage and doesn't require SQL Server at all. It’ll report on write and read latency, on sequential and random disk activity. It’s very granular and can be extremely insightful.