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chjade84   06-16-2009 at 02:37:34 PM

I've asked this other places and don't seem to get any answers, but I figure Tom's always gets me an answer!

I need a HDD benchmarking utility for Linux. Something that tells read/write speeds and access time. Preferably with some sort of GUI and a graph but that's not a deal breaker. I'd also like something that doesn't take 45 mins of manual reading to find out how to run the test.

Any suggestions?

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cobalt285   07-05-2009 at 02:21:25 PM
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There is two packages that come to mind. Look at iostat and vmstat either one should give you what you are looking for.

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Bronze Storage badge sub mesa   07-05-2009 at 04:21:26 PM
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Well bonnie is the first that comes to mind, its the most often used and simple to operate. There are two versions: bonnie and bonnie++, the latter offers more tests.

Some good tests are raidtest, rawio, blogbench, postal, iozone, iometer and others. You need to understand the difference between MB/s and IOps in order to understand its output.

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