* Brian L. <brianclam@xxxxxxxxx> [131003 12:31]: > For benchmarking SSD drives, I was told that we should precondition > our drives to get more accurate real world reading. > > I was wondering if anyone is using fio itself to precondition ssd > drives or use a different script to populate random data on the > drives? Yes I did. The fio source tarball comes with a number of sample job files including `ssd-steadystate.fio´, which might be useful for preconditioning of ssd devices. Regards, Juergen -- GPG A997BA7A | 87FC DA31 5F00 C885 0DC3 E28F BD0D 4B33 A997 BA7A -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html