On 17 Sep 2013, at 21:47, Jason Villalta wrote: > dd if=ddbenchfile of=/dev/null bs=8K > 8192000000 bytes (8.2 GB) copied, 19.7318 s, 415 MB/s As a general point, this benchmark may not do what you think it does, depending on the version of dd, as writes to /dev/null can be heavily optimised. Try: dd if=ddbenchfile of=- bs=8K | dd if=- of=/dev/null bs=8K -- Alex Bligh _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com