inspired by simple disk benchmark.
This tool has just one single purpose, it measures the writing performance of your hard disk on macOS and Linux. More precisely spoken of the disk under your CWD.
It used random data from /dev/random and writes first sequentially chunks of 4MB until a total 4GB is written. It measures writing time and throughput.
After that it writes this random data 8 times again on disk and measures the average writing times and throughput for this.
To install the ssd-benchmark tool, you just need to run
bash
cargo install --force ssd-benchmark
(--force just makes it update to the latest version if it's already installed)
to verify if the installation went through, you can run ssd-benchmark that should output similar to
sh
$HOME/.cargo/bin/ssd-benchmark
```sh $ ssd-benchmark
Filling buffer with 4 MB random data... Initilisation of buffer done 6 ms
Starting benchmark...
Perform sequential writing of total 4096 MB in 4 MB chunks... Total time 12326 ms Throughput 341.33334 MB/s
Perform 8 cycles of writing of 4096 MB... Cycle 1 time 9905 ms Throughput 413.52853 MB/s Cycle 2 time 11242 ms Throughput 364.348 MB/s Cycle 3 time 12325 ms Throughput 332.33267 MB/s Cycle 4 time 11174 ms Throughput 366.56522 MB/s Cycle 5 time 13384 ms Throughput 306.03708 MB/s Cycle 6 time 11482 ms Throughput 356.73227 MB/s Cycle 7 time 14958 ms Throughput 273.8334 MB/s Cycle 8 time 11216 ms Throughput 365.1926 MB/s
Total time 95690 ms Average write time 11961 ms Average throughput 342.4463 MB/s ```
The great thing is, there are no parameters or options.
If you miss a feature file an issue on github and don't forget to star the repo.