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1 Benchmarks:Toshiba Canvio Slim
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3 :author: Aaron Ball
4 :email: nullspoon@iohq.net
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7 == {doctitle}
8
9 If you're considering purchasing an external hard drive, :Category:Benchmarks[
10 these benchmarks] should hopefully help clear up some questions you might have.
11 In this post, I benchmark my http://www.toshiba.com/us/canvio-slim[Toshiba
12 Canvio Slim] hard drive. I've been using this drive for about a year now and
13 it has performed well for me. It has even taken a drop while it was plugged in
14 (it disconnected from the cable even). Here are the IO metrics from the great
15 https://www.gnu.org/[GNU] utility, dd
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17 image:files/Toshiba_Canvio_Slim.png[height=300]
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19 * *Manufacturer*: http://www.toshiba.com/us/[Toshiba]
20 * *Name*: http://www.toshiba.com/us/canvio-slim[Canvio Slim]
21 * *Made in*: Philippines
22 * *Size*: 500GB
23 * *Interface*: USB 3.0/2.0
24 * *Average Write Speed*: 99.0 MB/s
25 * *Average Read Speed*: 93.5 MB/s
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27 [[benchmarks]]
28 === Benchmarks
29
30 [[usb3-devzero-write]]
31 ==== USB3 /dev/zero Write
32
33 Writing 16 gigabytes of zeros.
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35 ----
36 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=1M count=16384
37 16384+0 records in
38 16384+0 records out
39 17179869184 bytes (17 GB) copied, 173.495 s, 99.0 MB/s
40 ----
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42
43 [[usb3-read-to-devnull]]
44 ==== USB3 Read to /dev/null
45
46 Reading 16 gigabytes to /dev/null.
47
48 ----
49 dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/null bs=1M count=16384
50 16384+0 records in
51 16384+0 records out
52 17179869184 bytes (17 GB) copied, 183.838 s, 93.5 MB/s
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55 Category:Hard_Drives
56 Category:Benchmarks
57 Category:Toshiba
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