Disk Speed Test

Overview

Runs hdparm -t, seeker and Nates dd script.

By default each test is run 3 times to get a good running average.

Outputs are cleaned up to provide usable information

For Nates dd test you will need to have the drive mounted and listed in fstab

Script

[javascript,n]

1. !/bin/bash

testpath=`grep $1 /etc/fstab | awk '{print $2}'` testcount=3

echo "Testing hdparm -t $1" for i in `seq 1 $testcount`; do hdparm -t $1 | grep "Timing" done

if [ `which seeker 2>/dev/null` ] then echo "Testing seeker $1" for i in `seq 1 $testcount`; do seeker $1 | grep "Results" done else echo "Seeker is not installed, please install from rpmforge: 'yum install seeker'" fi

if [ `which pv 2>/dev/null` ] then echo "Testing DD pv" for i in `seq 1 $testcount`; do sync echo "Write Test" dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=2048 2>/dev/null | pv | dd of=$testpath/ddfile 2>&1 | grep copied

sync echo "Read Test" cat $testpath/ddfile | pv > /dev/null

rm -f $testpath/ddfile done else echo "PV is not installed, please install 'yum install pv'" fi

Usage

[bash,n] sh hdtest <drive path>

What to change

testcount This should be set to the number of times you want this test to run.