Benchmark disk write speed by writing 1 GB of zeros with fsync
A quick disk I/O benchmark. The oflag=dsync forces synchronous writes for an accurate measurement. Delete /tmp/testfile afterward. Typical VPS NVMe speeds are 200-2000 MB/s; HDD VPS are 50-150 MB/s.
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