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How to monitor disk activity?
How do I view my Disk Activity on Ubuntu? For example, How can I monitor what is being written and read from disk as well as the percentage of disk usage?
I am looking for an application similar to ...
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Hard drive performance in 12.10
I've just had some surprising results when running hard drive performance tests in Ubuntu 12.10 vs Linux Mint Debian Edition, which I'm dual-booting on the same machine (and the same hard drive).
I ...
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slow(er) HDD performance
When watching a movie (simple avi) and my torrent client (transmission) runs simultaneously, the movie slows down. I think this is a HDD performance issue. It does not exist on windows 7/8 (same ...
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SSD caching (e.g. ASUS P9X79 WS) ‒ possible on Ubuntu?
Some motherboards such as ASUS P9X79 WS support something called “ASUS SSD caching”. You can connect 1 HDD and 1 SSD to 2 designated SATA ports, and IUUC, you can have a setup in which the motherboard ...
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Really slow copy speed [duplicate]
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Copying to/from NTFS partitions very slow
Does writing data from ext4 to NTFS partition take a lot of time?? I get speeds upto only 70kB/s (copy). ext4 - ext4 is pretty ...
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How to check hard disk performance
How to check the performance of a hard drive (Either via terminal or GUI). The write speed. The read speed. Cache size and speed. Random speed.
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Laptop's hard drive doesn't really spin down
I have a new laptop with dual boot to both windows 7 and ubuntu 11.04. While in ubuntu, the laptop gets significantly warmer than in windows.
My suspect is the hard drive, because I feel it's ...
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Can I simulate a slow hard drive?
I have hunch that a certain intermittent bug might only manifest itself when there is a slow disk read rate. Troubleshooting is difficult because I can't reliably reproduce it.
Short of simply ...
