Benchmarks:Toshiba Canvio Slim
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:author: Aaron Ball
:email: nullspoon@iohq.net


== {doctitle}

If you're considering purchasing an external hard drive, :Category:Benchmarks[
these benchmarks] should hopefully help clear up some questions you might have.
In this post, I benchmark my http://www.toshiba.com/us/canvio-slim[Toshiba
Canvio Slim] hard drive.  I've been using this drive for about a year now and
it has performed well for me. It has even taken a drop while it was plugged in
(it disconnected from the cable even). Here are the IO metrics from the great
https://www.gnu.org/[GNU] utility, dd

image:Toshiba_Canvio_Slim.png[height=300]

* *Manufacturer*: http://www.toshiba.com/us/[Toshiba]
* *Name*: http://www.toshiba.com/us/canvio-slim[Canvio Slim]
* *Made in*: Philippines
* *Size*: 500GB
* *Interface*: USB 3.0/2.0
* *Average Write Speed*: 99.0 MB/s
* *Average Read Speed*: 93.5 MB/s

[[benchmarks]]
=== Benchmarks

[[usb3-devzero-write]]
==== USB3 /dev/zero Write

Writing 16 gigabytes of zeros.

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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=1M count=16384
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
17179869184 bytes (17 GB) copied, 173.495 s, 99.0 MB/s
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[[usb3-read-to-devnull]]
==== USB3 Read to /dev/null

Reading 16 gigabytes to /dev/null.

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dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/null bs=1M count=16384
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
17179869184 bytes (17 GB) copied, 183.838 s, 93.5 MB/s
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