How to Test Disk Input and Output on Linux
There are a couple useful utilities on Linux to test disk input/ouput.
Sequential Disk Access: hdparm
The hdparm command will test sequential disk access and can be used with the below command. Replace /dev/sda1 with the mounted disk you would like to test such as /dev/hda1.
- hdparm -t /dev/sda1
The results will output similar to the below.