Iozone is a multi-platform disk benchmarking tool.
License: Open source/public domain
Platforms and formats: IOzone is available as C
source code, and the provided make file supports building on
numerous platforms, including Linux IA-32, Linux IA-64, FreeBSD,
OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows.
Status: Version 3.53, stable
Why Highlighted: IOzone is an extremely
flexible and useful tool for assessing the performance of file I/O
under the operating systems listed above. It can be run entirely in
command-line mode with text mode output, and it can also optionally
store its data in Microsoft Excel BIFF format which can be used to
create graphs with Excel.
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