Re: disk transfer rates

[Maurice Hilarius <maurice harddata com>]

With regards to your message at 12:34 PM 5/24/02, 
richard@nairnconsulting.ca. Where you stated:
> hdparm can be used to time disk reads:
> hdparm -t /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.81 seconds = 35.36 MB/sec
>
> As for writes, you could maybe time a dd if=/dev/zero of=test...


Or grab a copy of bonnie++, and run it.
That is a good, and well recognized benchmark, with reliable and 
reproducible results.
And free..



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