In 2015, Microsoft formally announced that SQLIO has now been fully deprecated, in favor of DiskSpd. While that tool was great in the days of spinning rust (read: hard drives), SQLIO really had nothing to do with SQL Server. It was a storage benchmarking tool, much like IOmeter, CrystalDiskMark, ATTO, HDTune, and probably 20 or … Continue reading SQLIO vs. DiskSpd