Best Windows & Mac network share benchmarking tool

[MyNameIsNicola]

I've Googled around and found a number of different network filesystem throughput benchmarking tools out there, but I just wanted to get some feedback about personal favourites and why. (I want to get some better stats on different types of synthetic workloads beyond what I observe from actual real life day to day usage).

 

Preach to me people! :-)

 

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[alpenwasser]

Are you looking to measure the network share speed (by which I mean actually reading and writing from/to the share) or the connection? For simple network connection test I usually use iperf, has been quite handy for my needs.

 

For the sequential share read/write speed, I usually just run a dd command between the two machines. Aside from that, I haven't really done any super-1337-guru-master-haxx0r synthetic benchmarks on my setups to be honest. Curious to see what others do for theirs though.

 

This was the result when I originally tested my server:

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But I don't really run a super fancy setup at home (server + backup + the clients, basically), plus my dad is self-employed and needs things to be up and running for his work, so I can't tinker too much with it

 

EDIT:

This was between Linux and Windows though, didn't have a Mac available at the time. But iperf is apparently available for Mac too.

Edited February 11, 2016 by alpenwasser

[MyNameIsNicola]

11 minutes ago, alpenwasser said:

Are you looking to measure the network share speed (by which I mean actually reading and writing from/to the share) or the connection? For simple network connection test I usually use iperf, has been quite handy for my needs.

 

For the sequential share read/write speed, I usually just run a dd command between the two machines. Aside from that, I haven't really done any super-1337-guru-master-haxx0r synthetic benchmarks on my setups to be honest. Curious to see what others do for theirs though.

The network is dual bonded 10 gig and is running as close to theoretical maximum as I would expect when I test it by just spewing garbage over UDP.

 

I'm interested in synthetic benchmarks of sequential read, sequential write, sequential read write, random, small files, large files, many large files in a directory, many small files in a directory, a few files in many directories, locking performance, filesystem traversal performance, with and without client filesystem caching etc etc.