I remember back in '99 when Richard H. Pistole wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Matt Ray wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a simple hardrive benchmarking tool for use with
> > SCSI and IDE HDs? I could use a Windows one if necessary (dual-booting
> > machine at work). I've got an old double-height 1.34 Gb SCSI HD I'd
> > like to see if it's performance is worth using for burning CDs (vs. a
> > new IDE HD).
>
> you could try hdparm.
Or better yet, bonnie. http://www.textuality.com/bonnie/
Bonnie is pretty simple, but it's better than using hdparm. :/ Bonnie
is a standard Debian package at least. I don't know much about other
distribution's inclusion.
Matt
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