Once a USB flash drive or an SD card is purchased, it is a good idea to check if the announced capacity of a device is real or fake (as a system may show a wrong size). Linux and MacOS users can do this from the command line using the f3 – a set of […]
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Disk Speed Test (Read/Write): HDD, SSD Performance in Linux
From this article you’ll learn how to measure an input/output performance of a file system on such devices as HDD, SSD, USB Flash Drive etc. I’ll show how to test the read/write speed of a disk from the Linux command line using dd command. I’ll also show how to install and use hdparm utility for […]