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One of the most important hardware components inside your computer is obviously the drive that holds the operating system. If you have Windows installed on a slow hard drive, it doesn’t matter how powerful the other components like CPU and memory are, the system will boot slower, load programs more slowly, and lag quite badly while multitasking.
This is a reason why high performance hard drives and especially SSD’s are so popular these days. It’s because upgrading just that one part can breath new life into a computer and make it feel a lot more snappy to use. The actual hard disk or SSD performance under Windows is determined by several factors so how do you know if your drive is performing well, needs tweaking or is even holding the system back?
Thankfully, the internet is full of websites to show you how well nearly every drive around can perform. Also, loads of programs are available that can give your hardware a performance test to see how well it’s doing. There are many paid suites around like PCMark or Passmark that can test the whole system, but here we list for you 10 free tools that are specifically designed for testing the performance of hard drives and SSD drives.
All tools were tested on Windows 10 64-bit and are also compatible with Windows 7 and 8.
1. CrystalDiskMarkThis is a very popular storage benchmarking tool because it’s versatile and can produce good results for just about everything from USB drives, to memory cards, RAMDisks, SSD drives and mechanical hard drives. CrystalDiskMark is very easy to operate too, just set the test size between 50MB and 4GB, the drive to test and the number of passes to run. More passes obviously should produce more accurate results.
Then click All to run a full test or any individual colored buttons below to run single tests. A useful extra option for SSD drives is whether to fill the test data randomly or with 0’s or 1’s. This will affect the results on drives with hardware compression such as those with Sandforce controllers. Portable, installer and custom skin versions are available.
Download CrystalDiskMark
2. ATTO Disk Benchmark
ATTO Disk Benchmark is a popular portable tool used by many hardware review websites and is also recommended by manufacturers such as Corsair to run speed tests on SSD drives. All the tests are sequential and are taken for read and write operations using block sizes of 512 bytes up to 64MB. A test file length of between 64KB and 32GB is also available, both are selectable from drop down menus.
Leaving Direct I/O enabled will rule out odd results due to any system caching. An I/O size of over a couple of Megabytes will produce virtually the same scores so probably isn’t needed for many users. Results can be saved out and loaded again at a later time. A look around the internet will likely find someone else who has posted ATTO results for similar hardware to your own.
Blenchmark
Download ATTO Disk Benchmark (via Softpedia, the official site requires filling a form)
3. AS SSD Benchmark
AS SSD looks a bit like CrystalDiskMark and is designed primarily to benchmark SSD drives. It is another popular tool being used by hardware sites such as AnandTech’s SSD benchmark charts (which also includes ATTO) to show their results. The program uses incompressible data so some SSD’s will show much lower scores than usual if they compress their data.
Sequential and 4KB read and write scores will be shown along with access times and a final general overall score. The results can be changed to IOPS if you prefer from the View menu. A couple of useful additional benchmarks are available in the Tools menu like a Copy benchmark which simulates copying an ISO, game and a program, and also a read/write compression benchmark. AS SSD is also completely portable.
Download AS SSD Benchmark(website is in German, download link at bottom)
4. Anvil’s Storage Utilities
For an SSD or hard drive benchmark and test utility that really puts drives through their paces, they don’t come much more comprehensive than Anvil’s Storage Utilities. While being able to perform a complete read and write test using sequential and random operations, it displays a full set of results including response time, speed in MB/s and also IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second).
A total combined read/write score is shown in the yellow box. Also included are 3 extra IOPS tests, an endurance testing function and the ability in the settings to alter the amount of compression to use on the test file. More functions like a system information tab and a screenshot saver round off an impressive tool. Anvil’s Storage Utilities doesn’t seem to be developed anymore and the last version is from 2014.
Download Anvil’s Storage Utilities
5. HD Tune
HD Tune is probably the most well known hard disc drive benchmarking and diagnostic utility and will likely be in every tech users USB toolkit. The free version 2.55 is getting old now having not been updated since 2008 and might have minor issues with some of the latest hard drive models. Some functions like error checking and benchmarking should still work fine.
After a test, the benchmark result graph will show the minimum, maximum and average read speed along with the average access time in milliseconds and the burst rate. The block size can be changed in the options from 512 bytes up to 8MB and a slider can move between faster less accurate or slower more accurate test speeds.
Download HD Tune
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Is there a bootable type of SSD benchmark software? I find that windows based softwares are inconsistent.
ReplyPretty much all drive reviewers I’ve seen use Windows based tools so they can’t be that inconsistent. I think it could be more to do with what’s running on your system, such as antivirus, Windows updates/tasks, or third party software doing things in the background while a disk test is running.
I don’t recall ever seeing a disk benchmark software that doesn’t require a full OS to run, whether it’s Windows or Linux. Obviously bootable Live CDs still run an OS although it will usually be stripped down to a large degree.
ReplyHello, i am looking for a Hard Disk/Drive utility that can scan and “repair” weak sectors.
Also interested to know if there is a tool that scan a hard drive surface from back to front and also randomly perhaps?
Thanks
James
Bad sectors are usually a sign that your drive is starting to fail. If you have a high number of bad or pending sectors it is highly recommended that you replace the drive rather than attempt to repair it.
WD Data Lifeguard is a free disk diagnostic tool from Western Digital. It can run a “basic test” (checking SMART info), an “extended test” (full scan that locates bad sectors), or completely wipe the drive.
If bad sectors are found during an extended test, you will be given an option to attempt to repair these sectors. However, like I said above, it is recommended that you replace a failing drive.
You can also use CrystalDiskInfo (from the makers of CrystalDiskMark) to display SMART information and monitor drive health in real time. CDI once saved me from having to pay for expensive data recovery by showing an alarm for pending sectors before my drive died 2 days later.
ReplyHD Tach cannot run on my Windows 7 64bit system, it says that only could be run on Win2K or WinXP.
ReplyRead the article again and you will see that it does work and what you need to do to get it to work.
ReplyHere is a simple disk benchmark tool written in Java I’ve been working on. Would appreciate any feedback anyone is willing to provide. Best wishes,
sourceforge.net/projects/jdiskmark/
I’ve written a simplistic tool in Python to benchmark HDDs and SSDs. It is completely open-source and now in alpha stage, though you already could use it, and if interested, participate in development.
Here’s the link: github.com/thodnev/MonkeyTest
CrystalDiskMark installs a hidden program on your computer that forces your browser to use a particular search engine.
ReplyThat’s because you are downloading the version with ads, get the one without ads to not have it install opencandy adware.
Blender Benchmark
ReplySo how do you know which version your are downloading? With or without ads?
ReplyIn fact, there is no version with ads any more, the author removed opencandy earlier in 2016.
ReplyThanks for the heads up,
I was looking to download and use CrystalDiskMark, but not now!!
Blender Benchmarks
Why are you taking notice of a 3 year old comment when a newer comment is telling you that problem doesn’t exist anymore and hasn’t existed since 2016??
Reply@ relcocq
SSD drives aren’t effected by fragmented disk, so no shouldn’t effect the results
You should never run de-frag programs on a SSD, ever.
Yes and no. Defrag on a HDD, from Win 7+, it run Optimize, which is the trim command. This is very important. Why? simple.
An HDD is seperate into block and then into pages. It can only do 3 operations on block: Read, Write and Erase. It cannot overwrite like a hard disk. But it function the same way: When you delete something, it marks the pages related to these data as available, but not empty. A problem though, on page, it can only do Read and Write, not erase.
When you have to erase a page because you run out of empty page, the ssd controller must copy all the good page in cache from the block (Read action + write action in the SSD cache), erase the block so all pages are empty and write back the good page from the cache. This operation take time and this is way your SSD speed degrate with usage.
Thus, in the early days of SSD, Trim appeared to fix this problem. When Trim is run, it does the operation above on all needed block and pages, thus leaving the SSD only with good and empty pages. This process does add some wear on the drive, but very little.
With time, OS and controller have implemented various way to bypass this problem, like doing the trim action on each erase, never leaving bad pages.
More and reference at: anandtech.com/show/2738/8
ReplyI did not see Hard Disk Sentential among your programs. I’ve been using it for years now.
3 years back it told me the bad sectors of the 750GB hard disk in my Dell 545 Inspiron had increased and its performance had dropped to 80%.
The system was still under warranty so I contacted Dell. After a lengthy phone call discussing the problem, they a sent a technician out. After 90 minutes, he agreed the drive was problematic, and gave me a 1TB replacement drive.
I installed the new drive, made it the boot and moved everything important over to it.
I made the 750GB drive a secondary just to see how long it might last. About one week later it failed.
I am sure those programs you list are great but I am thankful Hard Disk Sentential was recommended to me and have it on all of our computers.
Hard Disk Sentinel is a completely different type of software and is not a tool specifically for bench marking your drives.
Besides, it isn’t even free and this article is specifically about free software for the job.
ReplyInstalled HD Tach on Win 8. It will not run and displays a message that it will only run 2000 or XP.
ReplyGo to the Simpli Software program files folder and run the hdtach.exe in Windows XP compatibility mode, works fine then.
ReplyThanks Ray!!!
ReplyBenchmark Mortgage
Has anyone considered whether or not a fragmented disk would effect the results?
I would think so.
Rob.
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Device | Score |
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | 240751 |
GeForce RTX 3090 | 239165 |
A100-SXM4-40GB | 230279 |
RTX A6000 | 224527 |
A100-PCIE-40GB | 215676 |
GeForce RTX 3080 | 201639 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | 201623 |
Tesla V100-SXM2-16GB | 196505 |
Tesla V100S-PCIE-32GB | 195135 |
Tesla V100-PCIE-32GB | 191340 |
Tesla V100-PCIE-16GB | 189621 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti | 182123 |
GRID V100D-32Q | 178111 |
TITAN V | 175507 |
TITAN RTX | 166903 |
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti | 165040 |
GRID V100D-16Q | 163420 |
Quadro RTX 6000 | 162308 |
Quadro RTX 8000 | 161503 |
GeForce RTX 3070 | 149618 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | 149293 |
GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU | 138938 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU | 138008 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER | 129805 |
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti | 128472 |
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER | 126153 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti | 122822 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU | 122768 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 | 122315 |
GeForce RTX 2080 | 119566 |
Graphics Device | 119395 |
GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU | 117826 |
Quadro RTX 5000 | 110882 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER | 109139 |
GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER | 108042 |
GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design | 102731 |
GeForce RTX 2080 Super with Max-Q Design | 101826 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 | 99057 |
GeForce RTX 3060 | 98993 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | 96954 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER | 96693 |
GeForce RTX 2070 | 95653 |
Quadro RTX 5000 with Max-Q Design | 95169 |
GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER | 95115 |
Quadro RTX 4000 | 95095 |
GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU | 94444 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU | 91897 |
Quadro GP100 | 90924 |
Tesla P100-PCIE-16GB | 87939 |
GeForce RTX 2070 with Max-Q Design | 84446 |
GeForce RTX 2070 Super with Max-Q Design | 79366 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 with Max-Q Design | 78989 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 | 78824 |
GeForce RTX 2060 | 77881 |
Tesla T4 | 77787 |
GeForce RTX 2060 with Max-Q Design | 68985 |
Quadro RTX 3000 with Max-Q Design | 68235 |
Quadro RTX 3000 | 67716 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER | 66225 |
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti | 65474 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti | 65335 |
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER | 65091 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti with Max-Q Design | 63442 |
GRID T4-4Q | 62850 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 with Max-Q Design | 62421 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 | 62026 |
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti with Max-Q Design | 60553 |
GeForce GTX 1660 | 60388 |
Quadro RTX 4000 with Max-Q Design | 60331 |
TITAN Xp | 57792 |
GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER | 56545 |
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti | 55174 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER | 54847 |
TITAN X (Pascal) | 53913 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti | 53460 |
GeForce GTX 1080 | 51565 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti | 50971 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 | 50868 |
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti | 49790 |
Tesla P40 | 46557 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti | 45604 |
Quadro P5000 | 45504 |
Quadro P5200 | 45494 |
GeForce GTX 1070 | 45382 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 | 44924 |
GeForce GTX 1650 Ti | 44608 |
Quadro P6000 | 44572 |
Quadro T2000 with Max-Q Design | 41875 |
GeForce GTX 1650 Ti with Max-Q Design | 41335 |
Quadro T2000 | 40715 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 | 40358 |
GeForce GTX 1650 | 40154 |
Quadro P4000 | 38187 |
GeForce GTX 1650 with Max-Q Design | 38061 |
GeForce GTX 1070 with Max-Q Design | 37765 |
Quadro P4200 | 35726 |
GeForce GTX 980 Ti | 35644 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti | 35484 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB | 34600 |
P106-100 | 34188 |
Quadro T1000 with Max-Q Design | 34082 |
Quadro T1000 | 33867 |
Quadro P3200 with Max-Q Design | 33731 |
GeForce GTX TITAN X | 33494 |
GeForce GTX 1060 6GB | 33489 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB | 32500 |
Quadro M6000 | 32389 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 | 31797 |
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB | 31763 |
Quadro P3200 | 31231 |
GeForce GTX 1060 | 31159 |
T500 | 31073 |
Quadro P2200 | 30021 |
Tesla M40 | 29681 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 | 29582 |
GeForce GTX 980 | 29498 |
GeForce MX450 | 29343 |
GeForce GTX 1060 with Max-Q Design | 28760 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 with Max-Q Design | 27471 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 | 25947 |
GeForce GTX 970 | 25937 |
Tesla M60 | 25238 |
Quadro M5000 | 24511 |
Quadro P3000 | 22805 |
GeForce GTX 980M | 21580 |
GeForce GTX 780 Ti | 20975 |
Quadro P2000 | 20951 |
P106-090 | 20910 |
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti | 20630 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti | 20180 |
GeForce GTX TITAN Black | 20151 |
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti with Max-Q Design | 19115 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti with Max-Q Design | 18966 |
Quadro P2000 with Max-Q Design | 18320 |
GeForce GTX 780 | 18240 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 | 18167 |
GeForce GTX 960 | 17783 |
Quadro K6000 | 17627 |
GeForce GTX TITAN | 17607 |
GeForce GTX 970M | 17237 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 | 17182 |
GeForce GTX 1050 | 16945 |
NVIDIA Tesla K80 | 16728 |
Quadro M4000 | 16572 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 | 15899 |
GeForce GTX 950 | 15869 |
Quadro M3000M | 15478 |
GeForce GTX 1050 with Max-Q Design | 15011 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 | 14418 |
Tesla K80 | 14275 |
Tesla K40c | 14156 |
Quadro P1000 | 14009 |
GeForce GTX 965M | 13875 |
GeForce GTX 770 | 13821 |
Tesla K40m | 13816 |
Quadro K5200 | 13776 |
GeForce GTX 680 | 13300 |
Quadro M2000 | 13291 |
Tesla K20Xm | 12798 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti | 12768 |
Quadro M2200 | 12764 |
GeForce MX350 | 12662 |
GeForce GTX 750 Ti | 12522 |
GeForce GTX 690 | 12279 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M | 11898 |
GeForce GTX 960M | 11770 |
Quadro P620 | 11703 |
GeForce GTX 670 | 11566 |
Tesla K20c | 11505 |
Quadro K2200 | 11434 |
GeForce GTX 660 Ti | 11287 |
GeForce GTX 860M | 11193 |
NVIDIA GeForce MX350 | 11113 |
NVIDIA GeForce MX330 | 10903 |
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 | 10809 |
Quadro P600 | 10730 |
GeForce GTX 760 | 10693 |
Quadro M1200 | 10664 |
GeForce GTX 750 | 10421 |
GeForce GT 1030 | 10409 |
GeForce MX330 | 10282 |
Quadro M2000M | 10071 |
NVIDIA GeForce MX250 | 9920 |
GeForce GTX 950M | 9823 |
GeForce GTX 880M | 9780 |
GeForce MX150 | 9766 |
GeForce MX250 | 9759 |
GeForce GTX 780M | 9680 |
GeForce GTX 870M | 9554 |
GeForce GTX 850M | 9294 |
NVIDIA GeForce MX150 | 9217 |
Quadro P520 | 9152 |
Quadro K4200 | 9128 |
Quadro M1000M | 8957 |
GeForce GTX 660 | 8546 |
Quadro M620 | 8403 |
Quadro K5000 | 8387 |
GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST | 7135 |
NVIDIA GeForce 940MX | 6909 |
GeForce MX130 | 6827 |
Quadro K4100M | 6740 |
GeForce MX230 | 6669 |
Quadro P500 | 6665 |
GeForce GPU | 6657 |
Quadro K620 | 6639 |
GeForce GTX 770M | 6570 |
NVIDIA GeForce MX230 | 6533 |
GeForce 940MX | 6350 |
GeForce GTX 650 Ti | 6335 |
GeForce GTX 745 | 6284 |
GeForce 940M | 5874 |
Quadro M500M | 5776 |
Quadro P400 | 5655 |
GeForce 930MX | 5568 |
GeForce 840M | 5534 |
GeForce GTX 765M | 5517 |
Quadro K4000 | 5175 |
GeForce 930M | 5128 |
GeForce MX110 | 4620 |
GeForce 830M | 4358 |
GeForce 920MX | 4323 |
GeForce GTX 650 | 3423 |
GeForce GT 740 | 3301 |
GeForce GT 750M | 3127 |
Quadro K2000 | 3054 |
Quadro K2100M | 2952 |
GeForce GT 640 | 2862 |
GeForce GT 740M | 2778 |
GeForce GTX 660M | 2775 |
GeForce 920M | 2764 |
GeForce GT 730 | 2700 |
GeForce GT 650M | 2696 |
GeForce GT 730M | 2431 |
Quadro K2000M | 2385 |
Quadro K1100M | 2168 |
GeForce GT 640M | 2122 |
GeForce GT 630 | 1803 |
GeForce GT 710 | 1530 |
NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 | 1501 |
GeForce GT 720 | 1467 |
Quadro K600 | 1389 |
Quadro K1000M | 1351 |