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Created June 16, 2009 14:17
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benchmark MBP regular HDD
$ time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=1000000 of=~/1Gb.file
1000000+0 records in
1000000+0 records out
1024000000 bytes transferred in 15.577478 secs (65735929 bytes/sec)
real 0m15.609s
user 0m1.299s
sys 0m6.948s
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