Testing your disks using dd utility and time.
You can execute copies a large block of data to and from disk.
This will minimize disk caching.
Next is one example if our test system has 1GB of RAM.
It is easy ( 1GB = 250,000 blocks ).
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | $ time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=8k count=250000 && sync" 250000+0 records in 250000+0 records out 2048000000 bytes (2.0 GB) copied, 37.0113 s, 55.3 MB/s real 0m40.910s user 0m0.172s sys 0m12.641s |
It’s very hard to argue with this dd test.
