I saw in WHT that you can test the I/O of your server with this command:

dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync

Is this accurate?

I'm only getting:

1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 56.1437 seconds, 19.1 MB/s

on my current vps
masterb56 Reviewed by masterb56 on . Disk I/O test I saw in WHT that you can test the I/O of your server with this command: dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync Is this accurate? I'm only getting: 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 56.1437 seconds, 19.1 MB/s Rating: 5