I’ve seen commands to benchmark one’s HDD such as this using dd:
I bought an SSD and I am going to set up my desktop system with a completely fresh Linux installation.
How can I know if /dev/sdX is a local HDD or USB key?
I’d prefer a way of doing this without root privileges.
I have multiple harddisks which get connected to my server and I’m not sure which one is what in the view of sdXY . If I can see the serial numbers of my harddisks from terminal, I can easily identify them.
I’m running CentOS 5.7 and I have a backup utility that has the option of dumping its backup file to stdout. The backup file is rather large (multiple gigabytes). The target is an SSHFS filesystem. To ensure that I don’t hog the bandwidth and degrade the performance of the network, I would like to limit the speed with which data is written to the “disk”.
In Windows, if you type LIST DISK using DiskPart in a command prompt it lists all physical storage devices, plus their size, format, etc. What…
I want to know whether a disk is a solid-state drive or hard disk.
I am looking for a method to backup a whole disk in case something is screwed up…
I need to copy one disk to another. I tried with the command below and it takes nearly a day to copy 1 TB of disk in federo.
I’m looking for a way to limit a processes disk io to a set speed limit. Ideally the program would work similar to this: