Introduction

Disk speed test using dd utility

GIT Repo Location

https://github.com/pszaro/disk-speed-test.git

List of Scripts

• [disk_speed_test.sh]: Determine speed of write/read on drive command executed on

Things to do

Utilities Needed:

• dd - The dd utility copies the standard input to the standard output. Available on macOS and *nix

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Things to know/change before first run:

-Script will run 10 iterations of write/reads of a 1GB file called tstfile (Adjust if you want different parameters)

-After executing through 10 iterations, it will calculate the average for write and read speeds

-Script generates a log of each run and dumps the average to the location specified for LOG. (Update the location if you want it logging to a different location.)