LKBEN11581: How to benchmark your hard drive (HD) on your linux system.
Symptom
You need to compare two computers on HD performance
Cause
e.g. to decide which one to select for a server task
Solution
To do a quik HD benchmark on a linux system, you can use gnome-disks.
The tool can be installed on Ubuntu/Kubuntu with:
sudo apt install gnome-disk-utility
It is a GUI tool. To perform a benchmark you need to click on the tree dots in the menu. (which is hard to find if you don't konw)
Here a screenshot:
You need root permission to run the tests.
The result is shown like this:
Alternative tools are:
- sysbench
- iozone
- kdiskmark
These tools can be installed with:
sudo apt install sysbench
sudo apt install iozone3
sudo snap install kdiskmark
Have fun.
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Author: - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG
Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.
Latest update: 04.07.2022