Disk Benchmark utility for oSuse 11.2?

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#1

Hi.

Is there any graphical/terminal disk benchmark interface for linux?

Something equivalent to ATTO Disk Benchmark or HD Tune.

I’d like to use it mainly to test usb flash drive read/write speeds and SDHC cards read/write speeds (when plugged in the card reader)

Thanks in advance.

#2

Maybe hdparm? Do this as root:


/dev/hdparm -Tt /dev/sdX

where sdX is the disk you want to test out. e.g. sdb

And it should produce something like this (from my OLD laptop :slight_smile: )


/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads:   1302 MB in  2.00 seconds = 651.02 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  136 MB in  3.03 seconds =  44.81 MB/sec
#3

Yes. I know this one but as you can see it only shows read speed.
What about write speed? It also must contain an info on speeds for various sizes of files (eg. 16kB, 32kB, 64kB and so on)

#4

You can try Phoronix Testsuite, it’s a complex benchmarking tool which can test also CPU, graphics card… Actually it’s a frontend to other benchmarking tools, but it should make the benchmarking easier.

#5

eurorage wrote:

>
> Hi.
>
> Is there any graphical/terminal disk benchmark interface for linux?
>
> Something equivalent to ATTO Disk Benchmark or HD Tune.
>
> I’d like to use it mainly to test usb flash drive read/write speeds and
> SDHC cards read/write speeds (when plugged in the card reader)
>
> Thanks in advance.

bonnie++ is a very reasonable benchmark tool.

Also, as some have mentioned, there’s Phoronix (but you’ll see problems in
some of those tests… unless you want to test your hosts ability to cache).