Simple harddrive benchmark tool?
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Simple harddrive benchmark tool?| smithgcovert |
Posted: Aug 15 2011, 08:50 PM
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SLF Rookie  Group: Members Posts: 17 Member No.: 148 Joined: 10-May 11  |
Hi guys, I am about to do some reconfiguring of my SL 6.1 box. With the new support in place in 6.1 "official" -- I'm going to upgrade some of my external harddrives from USB 2.0 to 3.0 What I would like to do is test the current performance first, though, then run the same tool again after upgrading. I want to see any improvements, and I also want to make sure that something is not just completely configured wrong and I get worse performance. Here's my problem: Too much info! I do a google search for linux benchmarking, and I find a million things. I just want something simple and straightforward that gives me a few scores, so I can make sure I'm not going backwards. There are some hits when I search yum for "benchmark" --- but again, to many to try out each and every one. What would you use? I have rpmforge and epel both in my repo list, if there's something in there that would be on your "must use" list. Thanks, Greg |
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| tankist02 |
Posted: Aug 15 2011, 10:37 PM
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SLF Newbie Group: Members Posts: 13 Member No.: 301 Joined: 16-June 11 |
On FreeBSD people use bonnie and bonnie++. I am not sure if they are in SL repos though.
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| redman |
Posted: Aug 16 2011, 09:55 AM
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 SLF Admin Group: Admins Posts: 1705 Member No.: 2 Joined: 8-April 11 |
Perhaps you could try gnome-system-monitor ??
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| U308 |
Posted: Aug 16 2011, 10:30 AM
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SLF Advocate Group: Members Posts: 487 Member No.: 32 Joined: 11-April 11 |
What's wrong with hardinfo ? It's from repoforge (aka rpmforge).
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| smithgcovert |
Posted: Aug 16 2011, 09:40 PM
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SLF Rookie Group: Members Posts: 17 Member No.: 148 Joined: 10-May 11 |
I found bonnie++ in the repo -- I'll try that out. Cheers, Greg |
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| redman |
Posted: Aug 17 2011, 06:37 AM
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SLF Admin Group: Admins Posts: 1705 Member No.: 2 Joined: 8-April 11 |
Didn't know that one, thanks for mentioning it  -------------------- What is SL? - Forum Rules - Info on 3rd Party Repos - How to post images - How to post large text / config files
Desktop: ASUS P5QPL-AM, Intel Dual-Core E6500, 4GB DDR2, ASUS GeForce GT 430 1GB, SL6.4 x86_64 Laptop: ASUS X58L, Intel Dual-Core T3200, 3GB DDR2, Intel GMA X3100, RHEL6.4 x86_64 Test box: Intel S5000PSL, 2x Intel Xeon E5310, 8GB ECC DDR2 FB-DIMM, ASUS GeForce GT 220 1GB, SL6.4 x86_64 |
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| tux99 |
Posted: Aug 17 2011, 07:23 AM
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 SLF Guru Group: Members Posts: 1150 Member No.: 224 Joined: 28-May 11 |
The easiest is:
hdparm should be installled by default -------------------- My personal SL6 repository, specialized in audio/video software: http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/
(can be used together with EPEL and ELRepo repositories) |
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