$ sudo fio --bs=4k --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=32 --size=500m --direct=1 --runtime=60 --filename=/dev/rd0 --rw=randwrite --numjobs=1 --name=test test: (g=0): rw=randwrite, bs=(R) 4096B-4096B, (W) 4096B-4096B, (T) 4096B-4096B, ioengine=libaio, iodepth=32 fio-3.16 Starting 1 process test: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=12936: Sat Jun 19 14:48:48 2021 write: IOPS=250k, BW=977MiB/s (1024MB/s)(500MiB/512msec); 0 zone resets [ ... ] Run status group 0 (all jobs): WRITE: bw=977MiB/s (1024MB/s), 977MiB/s-977MiB/s (1024MB/s-1024MB/s), io=500MiB (524MB), run=512-512msec Disk stats (read/write): rd0: ios=0/0, merge=0/0, ticks=0/0, in_queue=0, util=0.00%