Re: measuring swap partition speed

From: Bakul Shah <bakul_at_iitbombay.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 20:24:37 UTC 
On Dec 21, 2023, at 7:50 AM, void <void@f-m.fm> wrote:
> 
> # dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/da0p4 bs=8k count=250000 conv=sync status=progress
> ^C11862016 bytes (12 MB, 11 MiB) transferred 40.063s, 296 kB/s

Is this on a pi4? Could it be that you have connected your USB
disk to a USB2 port? Use one of the middle USB3 ports. Another
possibility is your disk's USB port is a USB2.