Another measurement you might like to make would be random reads and/or writes.
Take a look at the debian package called "bonnie++" > Provides: bonnie, zcav > Description: Hard drive benchmark suite. > It is called Bonnie++ because it was based on the Bonnie program. > This program also tests performance with creating large > numbers of files. Now includes zcav raw-read test program. > A modern hard drive will have more sectors in the outer tracks > because they are longer. The hard drive will have a number > (often more than 8) of zones where each zone has the same number of > sectors (due to the need for an integral number of sectors per track). > This program allows you to determine the levels of > performance provided by different zones and store them in a > convenient format for gnuplot. > On May 29, 2014, at 3:36 AM, Anubhav Yadav <anubhav1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have purchased a WD my passport 2.5 inch external portable usb 3.0 hdd. > I wanted to benchmark the drive after connecting it to my usb 3.0 port. > > I did the following two test already. > > > sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sdc > > /dev/sdc: > Timing cached reads: 10856 MB in 2.00 seconds = 5431.12 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 304 MB in 3.01 seconds = 101.00 MB/sec > > and also this one: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/My\ Passport/output bs=8k count=10k; rm -f > /media/My\ Passport/output > 10240+0 records in > 10240+0 records out > 83886080 bytes (84 MB) copied, 2.03511 s, 41.2 MB/s > > I tried gnome-disk-utility but it says that since the disk contains a > GPT, it cannot benchmark the disk. > > Are there any better ways to find out about the read-write speeds of my disk? > > -- > Regards, > Anubhav Yadav > Imperial College of Engineering and Research, > Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/244cc0b4-0cbd-477c-9f64-3ffcc4077...@pobox.com
