Wednesday, 4 January 2012

hard drive benchmarking

$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda
[sudo] password for you:

/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 268 MB in 3.02 seconds = 88.88 MB/sec
$

1 comment:

  1. On Nyx:

    $ sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda
    /dev/sda:
    Timing buffered disk reads: 222 MB in 3.02 seconds = 73.58 MB/sec

    $ sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda

    /dev/sda:
    Timing buffered disk reads: 206 MB in 3.03 seconds = 67.95 MB/sec

    $ sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda

    /dev/sda:
    Timing buffered disk reads: 192 MB in 3.01 seconds = 63.86 MB/sec

    $ sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda

    /dev/sda:
    Timing buffered disk reads: 790 MB in 3.00 seconds = 263.17 MB/sec

    $ sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda

    /dev/sda:
    Timing buffered disk reads: 784 MB in 3.01 seconds = 260.84 MB/sec

    $ sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda

    /dev/sda:
    Timing buffered disk reads: 788 MB in 3.00 seconds = 262.64 MB/sec

    There is quite a variation in results. More testing required.

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