Testing Read/Write Speed Linux using dd

  • https://www.baeldung.com/linux/disk-performance-test

Testing Sequential Write Speed

dd if=/dev/zero of=/DIRECTORYTOTEST/FILENAME bs=1M count=1024 conv=fdatasync

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Testing Read Speed

# clear buffer cache
sudo sh -c "/usr/bin/echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"

dd if=/DIRECTORYTOTEST/FILENAME of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024

Delete file used for Testing

rm /DIRECTORYTOTEST/FILENAME

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