Nick Foster writes: > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/SSD/test.bin bs=1000K count=1000 > > 1000+0 records in > > 1000+0 records out > > 1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 9.76347 s, 105 MB/s > > > > Try /dev/random instead of /dev/zero. SSDs are known to use data > compression algorithms to run-length-encode drive data on the fly, to > increase bandwidth and reduce data replication on the drive. It's > possible that your drive is performing write optimization on your test > which is not applicable to the real world.
If you want a speed benchmark you probably want /dev/urandom instad of /dev/random, because /dev/random will block when it runs out of high-quality random numbers. -- Seth David Schoen <[email protected]> | Qué empresa fácil no pensar en http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/ | un tigre, reflexioné. http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/ | -- Borges, El Zahir _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
