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Check Disk Write Speed with dd on Ubuntu VPS

Category: Bash

Use dd—a disk tool—in a Bash script on an Ubuntu VPS—script:

#!/bin/bash\ndd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test bs=1M count=100 > speed.log 2>&1

On Linode run:

./speed.sh

—expect write speed Tests hosting disk performance