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Possible to retrieve benchmark test data?

Asked by Andrew Liu

I am trying to retrieve data from the hard drive benchmarking test for analysis and am looking for a way to store the data which is graphically represented by the read/write test in Disk Utility. If it is not possible to retrieve the data directly, what do the different colored lines mean? Is there any place where I can look up this sort of information? Thank you!

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Best DEUS (stefan-grau) said : 		#1

The Benchmark result is stored in ths directory
~/.cache/gnome-disk-utility/drive-benchmark

i was also looking for an tool to analyse and compare multiple disks
there is only access to the benchmark result when the drive is connected (History browser)

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DEUS (stefan-grau) said : 		#2

red line is read rate and blue line write rate, see left side for the rate in MB/s
green line access time (looks like a cloud), right side in ms

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Andrew Liu (liu-reizhi) said : 		#3

Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for.

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DEUS (stefan-grau) said : 		#4

a poor script for comparing dirves in the folder:

#!/bin/bash

gdudir=~/.cache/gnome-disk-utility/drive-benchmark
tmpdir=/tmp/gdu
read=read.plt
write=write.plt
access=access.plt
window=1280,1024

cd $gdudir
mkdir $tmpdir

## READ
echo "# Plotten von read_transfer_rate_samples" > $tmpdir/$read
echo "#====================================" >> $tmpdir/$read
echo "set title 'Read Rate'" >> $tmpdir/$read
echo "set xlabel 'Percentage'" >> $tmpdir/$read
echo "set ylabel 'MB/s'" >> $tmpdir/$read
echo "set autoscale" >> $tmpdir/$read
echo "set terminal x11 size $window" >> $tmpdir/$read
echo -ne "plot " >> $tmpdir/$read
## WRITE
echo "# Plotten von write_transfer_rate_samples" > $tmpdir/$write
echo "#====================================" >> $tmpdir/$write
echo "set title 'Write Rate'" >> $tmpdir/$write
echo "set xlabel 'Percentage'" >> $tmpdir/$write
echo "set ylabel 'MB/s'" >> $tmpdir/$write
echo "set autoscale" >> $tmpdir/$write
echo "set terminal x11 size $window" >> $tmpdir/$write
echo -ne "plot " >> $tmpdir/$write
## ACCESS
echo "# Plotten von access_time_samples" > $tmpdir/$access
echo "#====================================" >> $tmpdir/$access
echo "set title 'Access Time'" >> $tmpdir/$access
echo "#set xlabel 'Percentage'" >> $tmpdir/$access
echo "#set ylabel 'MB/s'" >> $tmpdir/$access
echo "set logscale y" >> $tmpdir/$access
echo "set terminal x11 size $window" >> $tmpdir/$access
echo -ne "plot " >> $tmpdir/$access

## Select file
find -maxdepth 1 -name '*-*' | while read file
do
 echo "$file"
 size=$(grep '^d' "$file" | sed 's_[a-z_=]__g')
 grep '^r' "$file" | sed s'_[a-z_=]__g' | awk -F ';' -v RS=':' '{split($2,a,","); print (($1/'$size') * 100), $1, ((a[1]/1024)/1024) }' > $tmpdir/"$file".read
 grep '^w' "$file" | sed s'_[a-z_=]__g' | awk -F ';' -v RS=':' '{split($2,a,","); print (($1/'$size') * 100), $1, ((a[1]/1024)/1024) }' > $tmpdir/"$file".write
 grep '^a' "$file" | sed s'_[a-z_=]__g' | awk -F ';' -v RS=':' '{split($2,a,","); print (($1/'$size') * 100), $1, (a[2]/1000) }' > $tmpdir/"$file".access
 if [ -n "$first" ]; then
 echo -ne ", \\" >> $tmpdir/$read; echo "" >> $tmpdir/$read
 echo -ne "'$tmpdir/$file.read' using 1:3 title \""$(echo -ne "$file" | awk -F "-" '{ print$2,$3 }')"\" with lines" >> $tmpdir/$read

 echo -ne ", \\" >> $tmpdir/$write; echo "" >> $tmpdir/$write
 echo -ne "'$tmpdir/$file.write' using 1:3 title \""$(echo -ne "$file" | awk -F "-" '{ print$2,$3 }')"\" with lines" >> $tmpdir/$write

 echo -ne ", \\" >> $tmpdir/$access; echo "" >> $tmpdir/$access
 echo -ne "'$tmpdir/$file.access' using 1:3 title \""$(echo -ne "$file" | awk -F "-" '{ print$2,$3 }')"\" with lines" >> $tmpdir/$access
 else
 echo -ne "'$tmpdir/$file.read' using 1:3 title \""$(echo -ne "$file" | awk -F "-" '{ print$2,$3 }')"\" with lines" >> $tmpdir/$read
 echo -ne "'$tmpdir/$file.write' using 1:3 title \""$(echo -ne "$file" | awk -F "-" '{ print$2,$3 }')"\" with lines" >> $tmpdir/$write
 echo -ne "'$tmpdir/$file.access' using 1:3 title \""$(echo -ne "$file" | awk -F "-" '{ print$2,$3 }')"\" with lines" >> $tmpdir/$access
 first=no;
 fi
done

gnuplot -persist "$tmpdir/$read"
gnuplot -persist "$tmpdir/$write"
gnuplot -persist "$tmpdir/$access"