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How to Test the disk write speed on the server

JJ
Jobin Joseph · Founder and CEO
·Published 20 October 2013·1 min read

This command will create a 1000 MB file with name “jobnix-speedtest” . So, Make sure you have 1 GB free space before you run this command.

Run the following command to test the write speed of the server disk.

dd if=/dev/zero of=jobnix-speedtest bs=1M count=1000 conv=fdatasync

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