Vdbench AlternativesBenchmark Tools and other similar apps like Vdbench

Vdbench is described as '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' and is a Benchmark tool in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Vdbench for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac and Self-Hosted apps. The best Vdbench alternative is CrystalDiskMark, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Vdbench are KDiskMark, Blackmagic Disk Speed Test, fio and Iometer.

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  1. 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.

    24 Blackmagic Disk Speed Test alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  2. fio icon
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    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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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. Iometer icon
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    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...

    20 Iometer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Diskspd icon
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    A feature-rich and versatile storage testing tool, Diskspd (version 2.0.17) combines robust and granular IO workload definition with flexible runtime and output options, creating an ideal tool for synthetic storage subsystem testing and validation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. IOzone icon
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    IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    SQLIO is a tool provided by Microsoft which can also be used to determine the I/O capacity of a given configuration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Load DynamiX icon
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
     
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