Hard Drive benchmarking tool ?

pascall

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Mar 3, 2006
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I upgraded my machine (CPU, mem, MB, Video Card, and HD). I kept my old ATA 100 HD as a secondary drive on the IDE2 channel. Bought a new Maxtor 250Gb SATA2 drive which is mounted on the SATA 1 channel (recognized as IDE3 in Bios). Problem is that Win64 doesn t seem to be able to boot from SATA drives - had to install the boot files on the ATA 100 drive.

I d like to bench the difference between the two drives (access time - read/write speed in RL conditions,...). What would be a good tool to bench those drives ?

 

pascall

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Tried it, seems to be good and consistent between tests. One question though : with my SATA2 drive, I reach a bit more than 205MB/s burst rate. Does this seems normal not to be closer to 300MB/s ?