fio-cdm: A Linux CLI alternative to CrystalDiskMark

One of the most popular SSD benchmarking tools available today is CrystalMark for Windows. Unfortunately no such program exists for Linux. Instead, Linux has a more powerful alternative called Fio but is complicated to run if you just want a quick benchmark.

Luckily, a Python wrapper for Fio exists called fio-cdm which outputs the same metrics that CrystalMark produces. What’s better, the program requires no python dependencies.

apt-get install -y fio
git clone git@github.com:xlucn/fio-cdm.git
cd fio-cdm
python3 ./fio-cdm .

fio-cdm-screenshot screenshot

Fio: https://github.com/axboe/fio
fio-cdm: https://github.com/xlucn/fio-cdm
CrystalMark: https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskmark