[TriLUG] Recommend File for NAS Throughput Testing

[David Brain]

Tools like bonnie++ can provide some insight too, although you do still
have to watch for caching etc.

David
On Aug 5, 2014 8:43 PM, "Alan Sterger" <asterger at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hello Listers,
>
> Looking for a recommendation of a baseline file for throughput testing.
>  In the past, used a ~1GB oracle database delivery zip. Transfer to NAS
> completes quickly, about a minute with some variability probably due to
> caching.  I'd like the test duration to be about 5 minutes, perhaps burning
> a DVD to SSD.
>
> The question then is, "are all DVD's created equal?"  i.e. compression,
> sparseness ...
>
> If not what would you recommend to use as a baseline 5GB transfer file?
>
> Thanks for your replies,
>
> -- Alan S
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