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How to test a hard drive?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

You can test the speed of your hard drive using HD Parm. Install hdparm package in Ubuntu. Click Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal and enter "sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sda" to test your hard drive.

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