IOMeter or NAS Perf Tester (network performance benchmarks) for Mac?

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IOMeter or NAS Perf Tester (network performance benchmarks) for Mac?

When I was on a PC-only home network, there were many network monitoring/testing tools like IOMeter And Intel NAS Perf tester. But I've been unable to find a network testing tool for the Mac. I'm interested in testing file creation/read/write speeds to/from my NAS.

Does anyone know of something for the Mac?

Also, I'm not afraid of using terminal, so if there's any built-in UNIX tools, or ones that are open source and can be compiled on OS X 10.6, I'm ok with that too.

Thanks.

24" iMac 3.06 GHz Core 2 Duo/1 TB/8 GB; MBP 17" C2D, Mac OS X (10.6.5), Parallels v6 with Win7 x64; iPod Touch 2G; iPhone 3GS (4.1); iPhone 4 (4.2.1)

Posted on Dec 3, 2010 9:38 AM

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Answer 1

Kappy

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Dec 3, 2010 10:39 AM in response to ScuseMe

Start with the Network Utility in your Utilities folder. Third-party software may be found at CNet Downloads or MacUpdate. Start there with Little Snitch.

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ScuseMe Author

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Dec 3, 2010 11:02 PM in response to Kappy

Kappy,

As I said, I want to test network read/write speeds. I don't see how Little Snitch - which is a firewall - fits into this criteria. Please explain.

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Kappy

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Dec 4, 2010 9:22 AM in response to ScuseMe

I don't know what Little Snitch does as far as network monitoring is concerned.

Of course you can just open Activity Monitor which does monitor r/w speeds. iStatMenus has a menubar item that displays r/w speed. Then you can use online services like PC Pitstop that tests your network's internet up/down speeds.

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Answer 4

ScuseMe Author

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Dec 4, 2010 11:35 AM in response to Kappy

I found something called HELIOS Lan Test. It seems to do the kinds of create/read/write testing I can use to benchmark my ReadyNAS NV+ file share protocols (CIFS, AFP, NETBIOS) to see which one is faster in my setup.

I already have iStat Menus, and I can monitor performance with it in a rough sense (ie. watch the display when I'm copying a large file), but the HELIOS Lan Test is a much better repeaatble test for ongoing analysis.

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