# Super Simple Disk Benchmark
inspired by [simple disk benchmark][1].
This tool has just one single purpose, it measures the writing performance of your hard disk on macOS and Linux. More precisely spoken of the disk under your `CWD`.
It used random data from [`rand crate`][3] and writes first sequentially chunks of 8MB until a total 1GB is written. It measures writing time and throughput.
After that it writes this random data 8 times again on disk and measures the average writing times and throughput for this.
## Quick Start
### Install
To install the ssd-benchmark tool, you just need to run
```bash
cargo install --force ssd-benchmark
```
(--force just makes it update to the latest version if it's already installed)
to verify if the installation went through, you can run `ssd-benchmark` that should output similar to
```sh
$HOME/.cargo/bin/ssd-benchmark
```
### Usage
```sh
$ ssd-benchmark
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Version 1.1.3
Star me on https://github.com/sassman/ssd-benchmark-rs
Filling buffer with 8 MB random data...
Buffer filled 5426 ms
Start benchmarking your disk writing performance...
Perform sequential writing of total 1024 MB in 8 MB chunks
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Total time 2522 ms
Throughput 512.00 MB/s
Perform 8 write cycles of 1024 MB
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Total time 29598 ms
Min write time 2516 ms
Max write time 4934 ms
Range write time 2418 ms
Average write time Ø 3699 ms
Standard deviation σ 801 ms
Min throughput 207.54 MB/s
Max throughput 407.00 MB/s
Average throughput Ø 276.83 MB/s
Standard deviation σ 64.76 MB/s
```
The great thing is, there are no parameters or options.
## Missing something?
If you miss a feature file an issue on [github][2] and don't forget to star the repo.
[1]: http://www.geschke-online.de/sdb/
[2]: https://github.com/sassman/ssd-benchmark-rs/issues
[3]: https://crates.io/crates/rand