On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 09:10:44AM +0200, Maximilian Pichler wrote: > > For the raw device (rsd1c): > $ doas cat /dev/rsd1c | pv -bra -Ss500m | sha1 > 500MiB [25.5MiB/s] [25.5MiB/s] > ca17bdb9a657bbcf654a60057861be8fe02df0b1 >
I don't understand above commads. If you do: $ dd if=/dev/rsd1c of=/dev/null bs=1m then hit ^C, the command will display the throughput with 1MB reads. They should be faster than file reads, as you expect.
