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Benchmark for Hard Disk Drives?

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Mitchydkid

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Anybody know of any accurate (of course) benchmarking software for hard drive write speeds?
I need to test my new solid state HDD.
 
How about defragging, running a full file scan within norton a/v corporate, and benching Q3A timedemo1 only losing about 7fps vs. just quake by itself? Gotta love the power of SCSI! 🙂

Cheers!
 


<< MadOnion has a new (today) benchmark out which includes a HD test, Pc2002. >>



That benchmark is a bunch of crap especially the hd part!! :disgust: It just doesn't make sense how some slower hd's score higher than the faster hd's. It seem to give higher scores to P4 than XP's too which is no surprise 😉
 
the only test which gives somewhat meaningful results may be HDTach...i think it's a pretty good benchmark.

Sisoft Sandra MAY be used in case you want to compare your drive's (better: Filesystem's!) performance to other setups within a "real life" windows environment - however it depends heavily on the amount of diskcache used so the numbers you get with windows/diskcache on are more or less useless.

HDTach does tests of the raw HD performance, it measures a kinda accurate average access time and the burst rate (from your controller to the HD, to test if ATA100 works ok etc...)...it also shows your CPU usage.

 
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