What software will test hard drive speed?

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Aelfgeft

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I just put together my new rig with two 500GB Seagate SATA drives, both with the jumpers removed so they're at 3.0. Data transfer between them seems slower than I expect, so I wanted to know if there was a program I could use to test the speed.

One is a 16MB cache one, a 7200.9. The other is a newer one, a 7200.11 with 32MB cache. Transferring from the latter to the former about 100GB, took about an hour. Just seems slow to me. Does it sound about right? If not, what could I use to test the speed, and what should I be getting from these drives?
 
Both are nice but I actually prefer HD Tach. I like being able to save each graph from my test runs....it makes it nice and easy to compare the graphs of each drive to one another.
 
HD Tune lets you screenshot easier though, has a built-in screenshot feature...

Unless I'm mistaken, I don't think HD-Tach has that... although saving previous benchmarks is cool too.

Honestly I just use both :)
 
Blazestorm said:
HD Tune lets you screenshot easier though, has a built-in screenshot feature...

Unless I'm mistaken, I don't think HD-Tach has that... although saving previous benchmarks is cool too.

Honestly I just use both :)
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