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Sandra or Atto on Linux?

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mugambo

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Is there a benchmarking tool for benching HDs availble on Linux that is similar to Sandra or Atto? Any help would be appreciated.

Dave
 
kovert said:
Have you tried using wine or vmware (windows emu) to see if those programs work?

They will not, because of the way they access the drives. Even if they will, the numbers will be bogus since they will ahve to go through the wrapper wine drivers.

I recommend the old and proven hdparm. It should be availible through apt-get if you are using a real distro like debian, or you can find it elsewhere on the web if you are using something like Mandrake or red hat (shudder).
PHP:
hdparm -t /dev/whatever_hard_drive_you_are_testing

should do the trick. There are several other tools availible, do a google search on "linux disk benchmark".
 
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