

KDiskMark vs CrystalDiskMark Comments
CrystalDiskMark set the gold standard for simple disk benchmarks.
KDiskMark follows it closely and is available for Linux


- KDiskMark is Free and Open Source
CrystalDiskMark is not available for Linux but there are some alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is KDiskMark, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to CrystalDiskMark and six of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to CrystalDiskMark are Cross Platform Disk Test, fio, Vdbench and Iometer.


CrystalDiskMark set the gold standard for simple disk benchmarks.
KDiskMark follows it closely and is available for Linux


Measuring storage performance (SSD, HDD, USB Flash etc.) and RAM speed across Windows, macOS, Linux and Android devices. Random and sequential throughput (read/write operations) is calculted in MB/s and can be compared in consistent and reliable manner between mobile and desktop...


fio is an I/O tool meant for both for benchmark and stress/hardware verification. It has support for many different types of I/O engines, I/O priorities (on newer Linux kernels), rate limited I/O, forked or threaded jobs and much more.

Provides similar functionality.


As the Iometer Users Guide says, Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems. It was originally developed by the Intel Corporation and announced at the Intel Developers Forum (IDF) on February 17, 1998 - since then it got...

No way to use the program on Linux without a secondary Windows installation.



Available in linux and uses fio as the backend