[TriLUG] Recommend File for NAS Throughput Testing

[Bill Farrow]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Alan Sterger <asterger at earthlink.net> wrote:
> If not what would you recommend to use as a baseline 5GB transfer file?

Create your own 5GB file for testing using the random number
generator. That should prevent any compression schemes from
influencing your results. Create the file once, and copy the file over
the network as many times as you need for the tests.

dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1024 count=5000000 | pv -brtps 5G > random-5GB.bin


Bill