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Most of the SSD benchmarks you see out there use solely Crystal Disk Mark for Windows on an empty SSD. This allows to show speeds of 300~550MB/s (SATAIII), which is amazing compared to most HDDs.

However, there are some cases where this trend is overestimated or even in reverse. Take a look:

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To do this test, people usually copy several GBs in Windows and plot the transfer speed.

I'm aware of several tools in Linux to benchmark disks (ex: hdparm, dd, GNOME disks, fio, kdiskmark, ...). However, I don't know of a tool in Linux that makes the above graph (ie: speed vs time).

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Is there a tool in Linux to measure speed vs time or speed vs space usage?

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  • You could use pv -petrab /dev/zero > $HOME/tmp.file. This will show write speed in real time.
    – Artem S. Tashkinov
    Dec 1, 2022 at 7:34
  • @ArtemS.Tashkinov Is it possible to save such data points (ie: speed, time, space usage) into a file?
    – Jeron Baffom
    Dec 1, 2022 at 7:56
  • I'm not sure it's possible but you could try pv -petrab /dev/zero > $HOME/tmp.file 2> /tmp/pv.log If that doesn't work you'll need something different, only I don't know what. I've never needed this info.
    – Artem S. Tashkinov
    Dec 1, 2022 at 8:32
  • @ArtemS.Tashkinov Although pv seems to be a good and lightweight solution, I'm more inclined to dig deeper fio. I've just read that it can do exactly what I mentioned in the OP: "Fio records a 'performance trace' of various metrics, such as IOPs and latency over time in plain-text .log files."
    – Jeron Baffom
    Dec 1, 2022 at 9:17

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