Hdparm
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hdparm provides a command line interface to various hard disk ioctls supported by the stock Linux ATA/IDE device driver subsystem. Some options may work correctly only with the latest kernels. For best results, compile hdparm with the include files from the latest kernel source code.
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Usage
- Syntax/synopsis:
hdparm [ flags ] [device] ..
Example usage
% hdparm -t -T /dev/hdc # HDD benchmark /dev/hdc: Timing buffer-cache reads: 1652 MB in 2.00 seconds = 836.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 198 MB in 3.01 seconds = 36.08 MB/sec
Options
When no flags are given, -acdgkmnru is assumed. See man page for details.
Seeker
Note: The following is from How fast is your disk?.
% gcc -O2 seeker.c -o seeker
or if you're lazy or don't have compiler at hand, you can also download the binary below. Then run it like this:
% seeker /dev/hda
Just like hdparm, it needs superuser privileges to access the raw disk device. The output looks like this:
Seeker v2.0, 2007-01-15, http://www.linuxinsight.com/how_fast_is_your_disk.html Benchmarking /dev/sda [17501MB], wait 30 seconds.............................. Results: 167 seeks/second, 5.95 ms random access time
