A portable disk seek benchmark. It does random reads from a disk device or a very big file.

Usage: sudo ./seeker.py /dev/sda

Example Results

SSD results: Benchmarking /dev/sda [149.05 GB] 10000/2.42 = 4124 seeks/second 0.24 ms random access time

HDD results: Benchmarking /dev/da0 [68.37 GB] 10000/60.26 = 165 seeks/second 6.03 ms random access time

Credits

License: MIT Author: Ivo Danihelka ivo@danihelka.net