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Not quite $5, but a $6.71 Hetzner VPS

    # ioping -R /dev/sda

    --- /dev/sda (block device 38.1 GiB) ioping statistics ---
    22.7 k requests completed in 2.96 s, 88.8 MiB read, 7.68 k iops, 30.0 MiB/s
    generated 22.7 k requests in 3.00 s, 88.8 MiB, 7.58 k iops, 29.6 MiB/s
    min/avg/max/mdev = 72.2 us / 130.2 us / 2.53 ms / 75.6 us