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Simple disk write test using dd
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dd-disk-test.sh
#!/bin/bash
GB=2 # how much memory in the system
SZ=$((2*$GB)) # you want at least 2x memory size
dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=8k count=$((250000 * $SZ)) && sync
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