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Simple HDD/SSD Benchmarks
HDD/SDD
Christian Külker
2023-02-28
0.1.2
doc
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HPC
Benchmark
HDD
SDD
hdparm
iozone
Gnome Disk Utility
smartctl
SATA
Simple HDD/SSD benchmarks with Linux tools

Introduction

This document introduces some utilities and tests to help understand the performance of hard disk drives (HDD), solid state drives (SSD), and others.

History

Version Date Notes
0.1.2 2023-02-28 Improve writing
0.1.1 2022-05-24 Add introduction and history
0.1.0 2017-10-25 Initial release

Tools

smartctl
hdparm
bonnie++
gnome-disk-utility
dd
iozone

Hints

Make sure that the device interface (SATA/SAS/mSATA/M.2/NVMe) of the host system is the best that the disk can support. See smartctl for more information: SATA version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (2017: 3.0 Gb/s)

Gnome Disk Utility

aptitude install gnome-disk-utility
/usr/bin/gnome-disks

  1. Select the disk, press the "cog" button, select SMART Data and Self-Tests "Start Self-Test": short, long and conveyance.

  2. Select disk, press "cog" button, select Benchmark

   Transfer Rate:
       Number of Samples: 100
       Sample Size: 10 MiB (10,485,760 bytes)
    Access Time:
       Number of Samples: 1000

Make screenshot

hdparm

for i in {1..10}; do hdparm -t /dev/sdb > hdparm-t-$i.log;done
for i in {1..10}; do hdparm -t /dev/sdb > hdparm-T-$i.log;done

Use a spreadsheet and psppire to analyze.

smartctl

smartctl -a /dev/sdb > smartctl-a.log
smartctl -i /dev/sdb > smartctl-i.log
smartctl -x /dev/sdb > smartctl-x.log

Further Reading

smartctl