Benchmarks:Toshiba Canvio Slim

If you're considering purchasing an external hard drive, these benchmarks should hopefully help clear up some questions you might have. In this post, I benchmark my Toshiba Canvio Slim hard drive. I've been using this drive for about a year now and it has performed well for me. It has even taken a drop while it was plugged in (it disconnected from the cable even). Here are the IO metrics from the great GNU utility, dd

USB3 /dev/zero Write
Writing 16 gigabytes of zeros. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=1M count=16384 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 17179869184 bytes (17 GB) copied, 173.495 s, 99.0 MB/s

USB3 Read to /dev/null
Reading 16 gigabytes to /dev/null. dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/null bs=1M count=16384 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 17179869184 bytes (17 GB) copied, 183.838 s, 93.5 MB/s