Martin Gregorie  wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:48:22 +0000, bob prohaska wrote:
>
>> Something similar to CrystalDiskMark would do the job, but far as can be
>> told it's strictly a Windows program and I have no Windoww hosts
>> available.
>>
> Without knowing what might be special about CrystalDiskMark, if you just

Only that it seems widely-used.

> want to run speed tests, download the source for Bonnie, compile it and
> run it. Bonnie is hardware-agnostic, so can be run against any read/write
> media.
> Look here: http://www.textuality.com/bonnie/ though they suggest you
> download it from https://code.google.com/archive/p/bonnie-64/
>
> Bonnie is easy to compile, easy to run, and the speed results it reports
> are straight-forward.
>
Something called bonnie++ is available  in the apt repository for the Pi,
is that in some way related? There's no man page.

It turns out bonnie is already in the FreeBSD ports tree under benchmarks.
I'll explore it further, thank you very much!

bob prohaska

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