Q: How to test the speed of your hard drive or USB
A: We have done it like this
Did you ever wonder how fast is your hard drive or USB ? There is quite a difference between
various models and sizes.
various models and sizes.
One easy way to monitor the speed of your drives is to download a small test tool like
HD Speed from Steel bytes:
HD Speed from Steel bytes:
After unzipping of the downloaded file double click on:
A small window like this will enable you to select which drive you wish to test and after
clicking on Start it will monitor the speed of your drive or USB.
clicking on Start it will monitor the speed of your drive or USB.
Now you can test various USBs and compare the speed.You can even select between Read
Speed or Write speed.
As you can see the above USB (called WORKUSB) has an average Read speed 17 MB/sec
What is really just average.The good ones could have a speed around 30 MB/sec.
The speed is also pending on how busy is the CPU with other applications.In order to get the most
accurate reading we try to run a minimum amount of programs when testing the drive or USB.
Speed or Write speed.
As you can see the above USB (called WORKUSB) has an average Read speed 17 MB/sec
What is really just average.The good ones could have a speed around 30 MB/sec.
The speed is also pending on how busy is the CPU with other applications.In order to get the most
accurate reading we try to run a minimum amount of programs when testing the drive or USB.
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