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Mountain Of Code · Mar 5, 2026

GNOME Disks Benchmark Tapers Off

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I've recently been using GNOME Disks to benchmark some hard disks connected via a USB-SATA adaptor. It was getting results like this: It would start off about where I expected and then slowly taper off to about half. Messing with the benchmark settings made no difference, the graph always had the same shape. Switching to test via dd showed a steady 150MB/s: dd if=/dev/sdf of=/dev/null bs=1M…

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