Benchmark for Hard Disk Drives?

[Mitchydkid]

Anybody know of any accurate (of course) benchmarking software for hard drive write speeds?
I need to test my new solid state HDD.

 

[nvektus]

ATTo, hdtach, winbench99, sisoft...

 

[Mitchydkid]

Your help is much appreciated.
Thanks.

 

[LarryJoe]

sisssoft is terrible at this particular benchmark. HDTach or Winbench is the way to go.

 

[sharkeeper]

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!

 

[XPTEX]

ATTo is the best IMHO, it measures actual disk performance and the cache buffer is somewhat negated.

 

[tenoc]

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

 

[nvektus]

<< 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

 

[flexy]

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.

 

[oldfart]

How about Iometer?

 

[CQuinn]

Hey, tell us more about that solid state HDD as well.

 

[woolmilk]

Yes!
Please, Mitchydkid give us some numbers when your done with benchmarking.