528 B
528 B
Harddrive's commandline tests
Test Write Speed
sync; dd if=/dev/zero of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync
Test Read Speed
dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024
Clear Cache and read speed from hdd:
sudo /sbin/sysctl -w vm.drop_caches=3;dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024
Using hdparm
Install:
sudo apt-get update; \
sudo apt-get upgrade -y; \
sudo apt-get install -y hdparm
Run (replace PWD with sudo password):
echo PWD | sudo -S hdparm -Tt /dev/sda