[GRLUG] Disk benchmarking (WAS: Solid State Drives)

[Michael Mol]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
>> >> I don't have a good way of testing seek times, though.  Does anyone
>> >> know of a good, free hard drive benchmark tool I can run from an
>> >> Ubuntu live CD?  I'm not going to build a Bart PE disk for the
>> >> purpose, nor can I put the drives in a Windows box.
>
> hdparm numbers are interesting, but don't tell you much about how
> something is going to perform in real-life.

I don't mind running better benchmarks, but I'll need some tool
recommendations in the next few hours, before I install the final OS.

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