KDiskMark

KDiskMark is an HDD and SSD benchmark tool with a very friendly graphical user interface. KDiskMark with its presets and powerful GUI calls Flexible I/O Tester and handles the output to provide an easy to view and interpret comprehensive benchmark result. The application is written in C++ with Qt and doesn't have any KDE dependencies.

Features

• Configurable block size, queues, and threads count for each test
• Many languages support
• Report generation

Report Example

                        KDiskMark (3.0.0): https://github.com/JonMagon/KDiskMark
                    Flexible I/O Tester (fio-3.30): https://github.com/axboe/fio
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

[Read]
Sequential   1 MiB (Q=  8, T= 1):   508.897 MB/s [    497.0 IOPS] < 13840.05 us>
Sequential   1 MiB (Q=  1, T= 1):   438.278 MB/s [    428.0 IOPS] <  2280.14 us>
    Random   4 KiB (Q= 32, T= 1):   354.657 MB/s [  88664.6 IOPS] <   352.37 us>
    Random   4 KiB (Q=  1, T= 1):    44.166 MB/s [  11041.6 IOPS] <    88.48 us>

[Write]
Sequential   1 MiB (Q=  8, T= 1):   460.312 MB/s [    449.5 IOPS] < 15153.11 us>
Sequential   1 MiB (Q=  1, T= 1):   333.085 MB/s [    325.3 IOPS] <  2349.82 us>
    Random   4 KiB (Q= 32, T= 1):   315.170 MB/s [  78792.5 IOPS] <   383.86 us>
    Random   4 KiB (Q=  1, T= 1):    91.040 MB/s [  22760.3 IOPS] <    39.80 us>

Profile: Default
   Test: 1 GiB (x5) [Measure: 5 sec / Interval: 5 sec]
   Date: 2022-08-24 16:10:33
     OS: opensuse-tumbleweed 20220821 [linux 5.19.2-1-default]

Dependencies

Required

• GCC/Clang C++17 (or later)
• CMake >= 3.12
• Extra CMake Modules >= 5.73
• Qt with Widgets and DBus >= 5.9
• PolicyKit Agent
  • PolkitQt-1 bindings.
• Flexible I/O Tester with libaio >= 3.1
  • libaio development package.

External libraries

• SingleApplication prevents launch of multiple application instances.

Installation

Binaries are available on the Releases page.

Install from the Flathub repository

flatpak install flathub io.github.jonmagon.kdiskmark

Install from the Snap Store

sudo snap install kdiskmark
sudo snap connect kdiskmark:removable-media # external storages

Debian / Ubuntu based distros

sudo apt update
sudo apt install kdiskmark

Ubuntu users can also use the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonmagon/kdiskmark
sudo apt update
sudo apt install kdiskmark

Arch based distros

Available in the extra repository:

sudo pacman -Syu kdiskmark

Development version from AUR:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/kdiskmark-git.git
cd kdiskmark-git
makepkg -si

Fedora

Available in the Fedora repository:

sudo dnf install kdiskmark

openSUSE Tumbleweed

Available in the openSUSE Factory repository:

sudo zypper install kdiskmark

Building

Building a package using CPack

You can build KDiskMark by using the following commands:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
cpack -G DEB # Or RPM, ZIP etc.

Building with Qt5

To build KDiskMark with Qt5 instead of the default Qt6, use the USE_QT5 flag during the CMake configuration step:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -D USE_QT5=ON ..
cpack -G DEB # Or RPM, ZIP etc.

Localization

To help with localization you can use Crowdin or translate files in data/translations with Qt Linguist directly. To add a new language, copy data/translations/kdiskmark.ts to data/translations/kdiskmark_<ISO 639-1 language code>_<ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 language code>.ts, translate it, then add the file to the TS_FILES variable in CMakeLists.txt, and create a pull request. It is also possible to add localized Comment and Keywords sections into data/kdiskmark.desktop and message for PolicyKit authorization into data/dev.jonmagon.kdiskmark.helper.policy.

Languages currently available:

• Chinese (Simplified)
• Chinese (Traditional)
• Czech
• Dutch
• English (default)
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Hindi
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Polish
• Portuguese (Brazilian)
• Russian
• Slovak
• Spanish (Mexico)
• Spanish (Spain)
• Swedish
• Turkish
• Ukrainian

TODO

• Text-based user interface
• Performance profiles (mix, peak, real-world)

Special Thanks

• Artem Grinev (agrinev@manjaro.org) for his help with assembling the AppImage package.

Thanks to the package maintainers, translators, and all users for supporting the project.

Credits

Application Icon
Copyright (c) https://www.iconfinder.com/baitisstudio

If you have any ideas, critics, suggestions or whatever you want to call it, please open an issue.