How to properly use ‘dd’ on Linux to benchmark the write speed of your disk?

Posted by linuxaria on Sep 21, 2012 3:22 AM EDT
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This article is written to address sometimes incorrect usage of the “dd” program to measure disk write performance on a VPS by some visitors of the lowendbox.com website. How to use dd to really benchmark your disk and not the cache ?

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