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We've compiled a list of 12 free and paid alternatives to fio. The primary competitors include CrystalDiskMark, UserBenchMark. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between fio and Blackmagic Disk Speed Test, SQLIO, Iometer. Also you can look at other similar options here: OS and Utilities.


CrystalDiskMark
Free Open Source

CrystalDiskMark is a small HDD benchmark utility for your hard drive that enable you to rapidly...

SQLIO
Free

SQLIO is a tool provided by Microsoft which can also be used to determine the I/O capacity of a...

Iometer
Free Open Source

As the Iometer Users Guide says, Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool...

IOzone
Free Open Source

IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool.

With AS SSD Benchmark you can determine your SSD drive's performance by conducting several...

Diskspd
Free Open Source

A Robust Storage Testing Tool (superseding SQLIO)

2U load generation appliance, also runs under a VM, A leading commercial performance validation...

Vdbench
Free Open Source

Vdbench is a disk and tape I/O workload generator for verifying data integrity and measuring...

Generate I/O for benchmarking, stress testing, verification or workload reproduction purposes.

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fio Overview

fio is an I/O tool meant for both for benchmark and stress/hardware verification. It has support for many different types of I/O engines, I/O priorities (on newer Linux kernels), rate limited I/O, forked or threaded jobs and much more.

fio can work on either of block devices or files and accepts job descriptions in a simple-to-understand text format. All sorts of I/O performance information (including IO latencies and percentiles) can be displayed.

fio Features

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fio Categories

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fio Tags

disk-exerciser disk-benchmark verification hdd testing ssd filesystem benchmarking hard-disk

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