How do I test my hard drive speeds

[DeadSeaSquirrels]

How do I test to see if my hard drives are really going at 100MB/s?

I mean I guess I can do a phony transfer of files...but I am afraid that that might bring in other factors that I do not want to account for. Basically is there some sort of testing software that I can download to test my drive. I have a IBM 60GXP 40 gig drive, running on a KT7, 1.3Ghz machine.

Thanks for the info

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

You're living in a wet dream if you think you're gonna get 100MB/s. Most 7200RPM drives are capable of between 30-36MB/s and that's about it. Use Sisoft Sandra to bench your drive throughput.

 

[Rand]

SiSoft Sandra isnt worth a damn for benchmarking, it's not at all representative of real world performance.

Fer benchmarking file server performance try IOMeter, for pure transfer rates try HDTach, for anything else try WinBench99.

Oh, and your never going to see a sustained transfer rate of 100MB/s. Even current top of the line 15000 RPM SCSI drives couldnt dream of coming even close to hitting a sustained 100MB/s. You might burst at about 80MB/s for a split second every once in awhile but that's about it.

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

Yeah, HDtach is better, but if you're running W2k like me or Windows XP you'll have to register it by handing over $49.95. As Dana Carvey used to say, "Not gonna do it..."