How can I benchmark my brand new usb 3.0 WD My Passport hdd
I have purchased a WD my passport 2.5 inch external portable usb 3.0 hdd.
I wanted to benchmark the drive after connecting it to my usb 3.0 port.
I did the following two test already.
sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sdc
/dev/sdc:
Timing cached reads: 10856 MB in 2.00 seconds = 5431.12 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 304 MB in 3.01 seconds = 101.00 MB/sec
and also this one:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/My\ Passport/output bs=8k count=10k; rm -f
/media/My\ Passport/output
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
83886080 bytes (84 MB) copied, 2.03511 s, 41.2 MB/s
I tried gnome-disk-utility but it says that since the disk contains a
GPT, it cannot benchmark the disk.
Are there any better ways to find out about the read-write speeds of my disk?
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Regards,
Anubhav Yadav
Imperial College of Engineering and Research,
Pune.
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