• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

Hard Drive Benchmark Program

FoxFlame

Limp Gawd
Joined
Sep 3, 2005
Messages
143
Can anyone recommend a decent program for benchmarking hard drives? Meaning, burst speeds, full transfer, and preferably one that will point out problems if they exist?

Is HDTach still the best?

Thank you,
--Fox
 
HDTach is not a benchmark. I would call it a "meter". It measures some values and you can compare them to what you expect them to be. If they are the same, your system should be working.
 
Ah, so is it like gas milage where they tell you this is what you should get versus what you really get? Or if I have a SATA 150 drive, my burst values should actually hit 150? It's only going to 130, with an average read of 60, but then my car is supposed to get 30-35 mpg but I only get an average of 30 :) (which ain't bad really)
 
Not really, you do get xxxMB of STR, but the problem is that software may not be accessing your hdd in a sequential manner and/ or requesting the same block size as HDTach, which will change the results.

Depending on whom you believe, some people suggest that RAID-0 which dramatically improves STR, i.e. HDTach scores, does little to make games load faster. Other say there is a huge difference.
 
CorpX said:
what do you guys think about sandra?
I do not know if recent Sandra versions have improved, but last time I tried it in 00/01, it was extremely inconsistent between runs, so I'd say it's much worse than HDTach, which produces consistent output.
 
Back
Top