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Hard drive speed testing tools
Hi Friends!
One of my PCs with Win 7 Home Basic 64 bit OS has an old 500GB Seagate HDD. I am also going to use a new 1 TB Seagate HDD and 240GB Crucial SSD next week. I have never done any HDD benchmarking myself, but heard a lot of the usefulness of it in deciding the actual speed of a hard drive of any type. I have downloaded a few benchmarking tools as you can see in the screenshot attached. Which of these is the most reliable one in your opinion? And how should I use the parameters i.e. what should be the ideal data chunk I should select and what is more important sequential or random? What parameters/variables are the best to test a hard drive if I use a popular tool called CrystalDiskMark? Please guide me. Thanks.
Last edited by tech291083; 18 Sep 2022 at 07:01.