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From: Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: hdparm like program for freebsd?
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On 9/27/05, Vincent Stipo <vstipo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a hdparm like program which can benchmark individual harddrives.
> "hdparm -tT"
> and give the burst rate, allong with sequencial read / write?

You can also use dd for that, at least for the sequential read / write
thing, probably with bs=3D4096 or more. Just make sure you don't
overwrite important data when you measure the write speed.

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