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Performance software

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uberdude

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sorry if this is a really dumb question, but, what is good software for testing HD performance?
 
Actually, it's a very good question, and there is no simple yet complete answer for desktop users. HDTach and Atto are good tools for making sure that the drive performs "as expected" and comparably to similar drives, but they are synthetic tests that do a poor job of reflecting desktop access patterns and the overriding phenomenon of locality in seeks. Sandra, owing to its insistence on using unrealistic queue depths, is an unusally poor test (although it does somewhat accurately measure Windows XP bootup performance). IOMeter gives good information on highly random server/multitasking performance, but once again does not account for locality.

Unless you want to go to the trouble of creating I/O traces of programs, running RankDisk and IPEAK, the only way to measure desktop hard drive performance on the desktop is with the general responsiveness of the computer, and that's what important anyway. :)
 
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