How to test your hard drive speed.

By Todd Bearrows

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Ever wondered how fast your hard drive really is? This article will show you a free way to find out.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

Your computer
Free software download

Step1

Download http://www.nu2.nu/download.php?sFile=bst514.zip
Click the closest download site.
When prompted click save as and put it in a folder you can remember.

Step2

Right click my computer, explore and find the folder you downloaded it to. Extract the zip file and run bst5.exe.

Step3

Click options, then click quick speed test. Click OK.

Step4

This is the results from my compaq nx9500 Click start.

Tips & Warnings

This is most useful when comparing two different hard drives or testing raid configurations.
If you don't do the quick speed test make sure the temp file gets deleted when you finish.

Comments

tbearrows said

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on 1/26/2008 The most important number for desktop users is the AVG/s. This is in average MegaBytes per sec. Right now sata interfaces are rated up to 300MB/s but you never get close to that unless you run a raid configuration. Like i said in the tips, this info is most useful when comparing 2 hard drives, 2 computers or different raid configurations.

kikkilu said

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on 1/25/2008 i downloaded to a temp file, ran the quick test, it did a 97% test, but the numbers really don't tell me anything. please elaborate.

tbearrows said

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on 1/25/2008 You need to select the download site after you go to that link. I updated the article with a new screen shot.

Nasser4812163 said

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on 1/25/2008 Dear members
I tried to download the given URL (http://www.nu2.nu/download.php?sFile=bst514.zip) but did not get anywhere, as if it did not exist, please advise.
Nasser