What are you using for I/O speed benchmark?

[bigb89]

Hello guys,

I just wanted to get some input on what you use to calculate disk read/write speed? What kind of testing/tools do you guys use?

Furthermore, are there any tools/tests that are specifically used for UFS or ZFS filesystems when calculating disks read/write speed?

I would like to hear more on what you guys are using.

 

[SirDice]

I just wanted to get some input on what you use to calculate disk read/write speed? What kind of testing/tools do you guys use?

Use benchmarks/bonnie++.

Furthermore, are there any tools/tests that are specifically used for UFS or ZFS filesystems when calculating disks read/write speed?

Not that I know off.

 

[Terri_Kennedy]

I would like to hear more on what you guys are using.

I use benchmarks/iozone. On the author's web site, you'll see a link to contact the author for some MS Excel macros which produce nice graphs like this.

 

[bigb89]

Thanks for the replies guys. I'll install both of them (bonnie++ and iozone) and give it go.

Until now, I only knew to use dd to perform simple I/O benchmark tests.