OP here. We’ve been heavy users of Hetzner's consumer line (like the AX41) for a while, but we ran into significant I/O bottlenecks with our database workloads.
We decided to benchmark the new AX102 to see if the Enterprise NVMe drives (with PLP) actually made a difference compared to standard consumer NVMe.
The TL;DR: The difference in fsync latency is massive. For anyone running Postgres/MySQL on Hetzner, the upgrade to Enterprise NVMe is almost mandatory for data integrity and performance. Happy to answer any questions about the benchmarks!
We decided to benchmark the new AX102 to see if the Enterprise NVMe drives (with PLP) actually made a difference compared to standard consumer NVMe.
The TL;DR: The difference in fsync latency is massive. For anyone running Postgres/MySQL on Hetzner, the upgrade to Enterprise NVMe is almost mandatory for data integrity and performance. Happy to answer any questions about the benchmarks!