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Re: OT: Insight into speed of dd seeks and skips



On Wednesday, September 17, 2025 11:23:58 PM Max Nikulin wrote:

> On 18/09/2025 08:32, rhkramer wrote:

> > Background: I'm vaguely thinking (maybe not very seriously) of writing

> > my own tester for things like SD/TF cards and flash drives to confirm

> > the capacity.

>

> I hope, you are aware of various existing projects:

> f3 (Fight Flash Fraud) specifically for capacity;

> "Seeks and skips" sound like an intention to test performance, so

> - fio

> - iozone3

> - flashbenh

>

> <https://web.archive.org/web/20140806023041/https://wiki.linaro.org/Working

> Groups/KernelArchived/Projects/FlashCardSurvey>

 

Thanks Max Nitulin and David Christensen for your replies!

 

I have to read:

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20140806023041/https://wiki.linaro.org/Working

Groups/KernelArchived/Projects/FlashCardSurvey

 

... at least once more -- i'm not sure my approach to writing something in each GB of the card will work as there are a lot of twists and turns that determine where things actually get written.


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