Thank you all for the response. I found ssd-steadystate.fio in the tarball. Brian Brian L. On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Juergen Salk <juergen.salk@xxxxxx> wrote: > * 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