Comments on: SSD speed test on Asus EeePC 901Go (Linux) http://www.flattermann.net/2009/05/ssd-speed-test-on-asus-eeepc-901go-linux/ flattermann's developer blog Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:31:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: JCS http://www.flattermann.net/2009/05/ssd-speed-test-on-asus-eeepc-901go-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-132 JCS Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:42:42 +0000 http://www.flattermann.net/?p=279#comment-132 What you have measured with the dd write command is not the disk write speed. dd will return as soon as everything has been written to memory -- the write to the disk is done in the background. If you want even remotely reasonable numbers, carry out a "sync" before and after the write and measure the time from the start of dd to the end of the second sync command. JCS. What you have measured with the dd write command is not the disk write speed. dd will return as soon as everything has been written to memory — the write to the disk is done in the background.

If you want even remotely reasonable numbers, carry out a “sync” before and after the write and measure the time from the start of dd to the end of the second sync command.

JCS.

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