A simple dd test (SSD vs HD)

This is a simple and not scientific benchmark, using the dd UNIX command, that will give you an idea of how faster an SSD than a usual hard disk is.

1TB SATA hard disk

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile1 bs=10000000 count=512

512+0 records in

512+0 records out

5120000000 bytes transferred in 59.423885 secs (86160640 bytes/sec)

256Gb SATA SSD

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile1 bs=10000000 count=512

512+0 records in

512+0 records out

5120000000 bytes transferred in 22.594125 secs (226607583 bytes/sec)

The results are impressive!