Disky The Disc Benchmarker

Disky The Disk Benchmarker

#!/usr/bin/python
# This is a great function for timing a function
def timer(fun):
"""timer takes the input of a function and returns the clock() time"""
	from time import clock
	start = clock()
	fun
	return clock()-start

def filer(path, data):
	"""the data supplied will be binary"""
	f = open(path, 'ab')
	f.write(data)
	f.close

def writer():
	"""Currently writes 100MB to E:\test.bin"""
	MB = "\xFE" * (2**20)
	timer_list = []
	counter = 0
	while counter < 100:
		timer_list.append(timer(filer("E:\\test.bin", MB)))
		counter += 1
	return reduce(lambda x,y: x + y, timer_list) / len(timer_list)#, reduce(lambda x,y: x + y, timer_list)

def main():
	counter = 0
	timer_list = []
	while counter < 10:
		timer_list.append(writer())
		print counter + 1,"\t\t", timer_list[counter] #human readable 1 = the first iteration
		counter +=1
	print "Average Time:\t", reduce(lambda x,y: x + y, timer_list) / len(timer_list)

main()