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rambos@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Thx. Ive seen dd commands in guides how to test drive speed, but I’m not sure how can I specify what drive I want to test. I see I could change “if” and “of”, but don’t trust myself enough to use my own modified commands before understanding them better. Will read more about that. Honestly I’m surprised drive speed test is not easier, but its probably just me still being noob xD

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not_fond_of_reddit@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Let’s say you want to test a drive that is mounted on /tmp… you just cd into that directory and you can use my example.

You can use

$> df -h or $> mount

to check how your drive is mounted in the OS Most ”default ” installations will have 1-4 partitions and / being partition 3 or 4.

So if you look at the mount command and / is /dev/sdX3 (where X can be a-z depending on how many drives you have connected) and no other mounts are in the output then every directory under / is on that drive… so you can run my example from your home-directory if you fancy that.

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- rambos@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thank you a lot for being patient with me :D
  
  dd if=/dev/zero of=1g-testfile bs=1G count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 4.62269 s, 232 MB/s
  
  This HDD is obviously working fine and much faster than I thought it can. I guess I have to find bottleneck elswhere
  
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  - not_fond_of_reddit@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    If I can at least help on stranger on the internet… well, then I have helped one stranger on the internet 😂
    
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    rambos@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Hehe you are awesome 😂
    
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