“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and benchmarks statistics.” I often get asked about disk performance. I often use iometer — a well known disk benchmark. I usually use it on Windows. It’s pretty easy to set up, although it does have a lot of configuration options. I wrote up a quick guide to using iometer. Gentlemen, start your disk controllers.
thanks, nice getting started …
lots of questions, but only the test data, and playing around will adequately answer those …
sector size leading to a number of questions – i assume, i can read and write a number of “block sizes”, regardless of the actual disk “sector” size …