A benchmark is the act of running computer programs in order to assess the performance of computer hardware and software applications.
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Category: System Software
7 Best Free and Open Source Web Servers
The main function of a web server is to display website content through storing, processing and delivering webpages to users. Here’s our verdict on the best free and open source web servers.
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Bonnie++ – benchmark suite software
Bonnie++ is an open source benchmark suite that is aimed at performing a number of simple tests of hard drive and file system performance.
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5 Best Free and Open Source CardDAV Servers
CardDAV (“Card Distributed Authoring and Versioning”) is a standardized address book client/server protocol.
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GSmartControl – hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool
GSmartControl is an open source graphical user interface for smartctl, which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART data.
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Smartmontools – control and monitor storage systems
The smartmontools package contains two open source utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems
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hdparm – get/set ATA/SATA drive parameters
hdparm is an open source, command-line, performance and benchmarking utility to set and view ATA hard disk drive hardware parameters.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Hard Disk Utilities for System Tweakers
We showcase the finest open source tools to diagnose the health of a hard disk and improve its performance.
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NVMe-CLI – NVM-Express user space tooling
NVMe-CLI is an NVMe management command line interface. This offers a powerful feature set that follows the NVMe specification
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sg3_utils – utilities that send SCSI commands to devices
The sg3_utils package contains utilities that send SCSI commands to devices. This is free and open source software written in C.
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