Benchmarking SSD

• How to Test Write Speed
• How to Test Read Speed

How to Test Write Speed

sync; dd if=/dev/zero of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.28696 s, 327 MB/s

How to Test Read Speed

dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 0.159273 s, 6.7 GB/s

• Clear the Cache and Run again

 sudo /sbin/sysctl -w vm.drop_caches=3
vm.drop_caches = 3
$ dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 2.27431 s, 472 MB/s