IOzone Alternatives

IOzone is described as 'filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations' and is a Benchmark tool in the os & utilities category. There are eight alternatives to IOzone for Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Self-Hosted solutions. The best alternative is Blackmagic Disk Speed Test, which is free. Other great apps like IOzone are fio, Iometer, InchWest DiskMark and Vdbench.

IOzone alternatives are mainly Benchmark Tools but may also be Hard Disk Benchmark Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of IOzone.

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IOzone

Free • Open Source
Benchmark Tool

Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD

IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations.

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Blackmagic Disk Speed Test
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
26 alternatives to Blackmagic Disk Speed Test
Disk Speed Test is an easy to use tool to quickly measure and certify your disk performance for working with high quality video! Simply click the start button and Disk Speed Test will write test your disk using large blocks of data, and then display the result.

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fio
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Free • Open Source
Benchmark Tool
Hard Disk Benchmark Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
15 alternatives to fio
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.
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1. Portablefio can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
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Iometer
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Free • Open Source
Benchmark Tool
Windows
Linux
18 alternatives to Iometer
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...
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Stress Testing
Hardware Monitoring
Discontinued
Last activity from 2014, see https://sourceforge.net/projects/iometer/files/iometer-stable/
InchWest DiskMark
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Paid • Proprietary
Benchmark Tool
Hard Disk Benchmark Tool
Mac
17 alternatives to InchWest DiskMark
Test the performance of your flash (pen/usb), solid state, hard disk drives in just 60 seconds.
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InchWest DiskMark Features
Hardware Monitoring
Vdbench
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Free • Open Source
Benchmark Tool
Windows
Linux
11 alternatives to Vdbench
Vdbench is a disk and tape I/O workload generator for verifying data integrity and measuring performance of direct attached and network connected storage on Windows, Solaris, Linux, AIX, OS/X and HP/UX.

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SQLIO
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Free • Proprietary
Benchmark Tool
Windows
11 alternatives to SQLIO
SQLIO is a tool provided by Microsoft which can also be used to determine the I/O capacity of a given configuration.
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Filesystem
Discontinued
Replaced by Microsoft's open source utility Diskspd. See Diskspd
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Cold-cache Sequential I/O Benchmark
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Free • Proprietary
Benchmark Tool
Hard Disk Benchmark Tool
Windows
13 alternatives to Cold-cache Sequential I/O Benchmark
CCSIO Benchmark measures maximum sequential read/write speed that is realistically achievable for a given file system location, including local drives, remote network shares, virtual/pseudo devices such as RAM disks and encrypted file containers.
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Cold-cache Sequential I/O Benchmark Features
1. PortableCold-cache Sequential I/O Benchmark can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Load DynamiX
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
Self-Hosted
13 alternatives to Load DynamiX
2U load generation appliance, also runs under a VM, A leading commercial performance validation product for networked storage infrastructure. We help companies reduce risk and save millions of dollars by aligning storage deployment decisions to application workload performance...
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Stress Testing
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fio Features

Iometer Features

InchWest DiskMark Features

SQLIO Features

Cold-cache Sequential I/O Benchmark Features

Load DynamiX Features