Hard drive speed test using Linux command line and hdparm

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Note that all tests should be run multiple times and average time should be calculated to get more accurate result.

Bypassing hard drive’s buffer cache memory thus reading directly from the disk.

Read data from the second half of the disk that is if the hard drive size is 100GB.

To obtain cached reads run the following command:

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