Can someone here recommend a utility to perform benchmark tests on usb ports and external drives? I found a few searching the web, but I imagine that there is one or more that work well or best with Fedora 38/GNOME 44.5. Thanks, Paul PS - I found this code: $ dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M co…

Ultimately, it’s your decision since its your system. dd is a viable way to benchmark this, but it’s also a powerful tool that will definitely break things if you ask it to. dd is also only block data transfer at a specified rate. dd also doesn’t do any error checking, so it sends to reads and wr…

Test Speed of external ssd and USB ports

Ask Fedora

gitano-too (Paul Skvorc) October 23, 2023, 7:27pm 3

YIKES! Thanks for that warning!

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread!

Paul

1 Like

Topic		Replies	Views
Firefox loads quickly after upgrading my HDD to SSD. Why? Ask Fedora f38	2	165	October 14, 2023
Unable to mount an external drive Ask Fedora f39	11	37404	March 24, 2024
External ssd fails to mount in fedora workstation Ask Fedora f39 , workstation , xfs	2	230	February 15, 2024
Issues with an encrypted SSD drive Ask Fedora disk , encryption , ssd , luks2 , luks1 , errors	1	45	April 20, 2025
Need Direct IO for ramfs or tmpfs or is there another Linux RAM disk that supports Direct IO Ask Fedora	11	5343	September 21, 2021

Test Speed of external ssd and USB ports

Related topics