Articles tagged with "speed"

1. Writing speed on FreeBSD 9-RELEASE-p3 amd64

   Now that I’ve switched to FreeBSD 9.0, I thought I’d repeat the write speed test I did in 2010 on my desktop machine.

   The test is writing approximately 10 GB data from /dev/zero to /tmp/foo;

   dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/foo bs=10M count …

2. Writing speed on FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE amd64

   Recently the question came up how fast the write speed of a disk drive on FreeBSD should be. I decided to test the hardware that I have at my disposal, which is a desktop machine and a laptop.

   The test is writing approximately 10 GB data from /dev/zero to …