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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 22:42:06 +0200
From: Juergen Salk <juergen.salk@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: precondition ssd drives w/ fio
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* Brian L. <brianclam@gmail.com> [131003 12:31]:

> For benchmarking SSD drives, I was told that we should precondition
> our drives to get more accurate real world reading.
>=20
> I was wondering if anyone is using fio itself to precondition ssd
> drives or use a different script to populate random data on the
> drives?

Yes I did. The fio source tarball comes with a number of sample
job files including `ssd-steadystate.fio=EF=BF=BD, which might be
useful for preconditioning of ssd devices.=20

Regards,

Juergen

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