Hi! Use a simple test: time dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test-hd bs=1M count=1000 Sysbench: http://sysbench.sourceforge.net/docs/#fileio_mode And this: http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/27/Linux%20Filesystem%20Performance%20for%20Databases%20Presentation.pdf 2010/5/5 Matt Keating <keatster at gmail.com> > What is the best way to benchmark disk IO? > > I'm looking to move one of my servers, which is rather IO intense. But > not without first benchmarking the current and new disk array, To make > sure this isn't a full waste of time. > > thanks > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Best regards, Eugene Kilimchuk <ekilimchuk at gmail.com> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100506/161785e5/attachment-0005.html>