Linux - How to perform I/O performance test with dd command

Linux - How to perform I/O performance test with dd command

 
Question : How to perform I/O performance test in Linux to find r/w speed?
Answer :  It can be achieved using dd command.

Example to test write speed :
1. Go to the directory location where you want to perform the test.
[root@server ~]# cd /dir

2. Run dd command below.
[root@server ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=dd.data bs=4k count=200000 conv=fsync
200000+0 records in
200000+0 records out
819200000 bytes (819 MB) copied, 8.47374 seconds, 96.7 MB/s

[root@server ~]# ls -la
total 801588
drwxr-xr-x 2 root     root          4096 Oct 22 12:51 .
drwxr-x--- 5 root     root           8192 Oct 22 12:51 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root     819200000 Oct 22 12:51 dd.data


Example to test read speed :
[root@server ~]# time time dd if=/path/to/bigfile of=/dev/null bs=8k

                              if = name of input file
                             of = name of output file
                             bs = size of block
                        count = number of block
                         conv = fsync - flush data at the end of the copy
                                   dsync - flush data after every block of the copy
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