What's a good free open source hard drive benchmark?

Question

After a quick search on Freshmeat I found nothing. Anybody know of a good utility?

I normally use time (dd if=/dev/zero of=newfile ...) to test write speed and hdparm -t to test read speed.

Thanks.

sege · Answer 1 · 2011-07-29 14:55:27Z

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Take a look at bonnie and bonnie++, they will give you pretty much information.

answered Jul 29 '11 at 14:55

sege
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	I tried compiling the bonnie that I found on Freshmeat but it was DOA. I'll try the one you suggested. Thanks. – Stewie Jul 29 '11 at 14:57
	@Stewie: On what OS are you? On most distributions Bonnie and/or Bonnie++ are available to install from the standard repositories. – SvW Jul 29 '11 at 15:07

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