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How can I benchmark my HDD?

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I've seen commands to benchmark one's HDD such as this using dd: $ time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=ddfile bs=8k count=250000 && sync" Are there better methods to do so than this?
Asked by slm (378985 rep)
Jan 11, 2014, 03:50 AM
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