How to Test the Performance of Your Harddisk/SolidStateDrive
Note: If you are looking to benchmark other parts of your system, please check out this tutorial created by Jake Wenta.
Introduction
In this tutorial we will be benchmarking our drives to see how well they perform as well as using a program to monitor them.
Step 1
Download CrystalDiskMark from here. This program will benchmark your drives.
Download CrystalDiskInfo from here. This program allows you to monitor the condition and state of your drives.
Step 2
Install CrystalDiskMark and CrystalDiskInfo and then run them. CrystalDiskInfo is self explanatory and it gives you a system analysis of the drives upon startup. The steps below explain how to use CrystalDiskMark, the benchmarking tool.
Step 3
Now we can select a drive. This can be done by selecting the desired drive from the drop down menu towards the top right hand side of the screen.
Step 4
To the left from where we just selected a drive, there are two options. The farthest on the right begins the benchmark. The middle one gives you the option of how many times you want to run a test to get consistent results and the one to the right let's you select how big of a test file you wish test off of. If you are new to this, leave it all at default.
Step 5
You can choose how you wish to test the drive. By Clicking "File" --> "Test Data" you can choose what you wish. I recommend leaving it at default unless you know what you are doing.
Step 6
You can click "All" to begin running all the standard tests or you click them individually. Please note benchmarking SSD's consistency MAY deteriorate their performance. If you are testing an OS drive it is common to experience low performance and lagg.
Recap
You should now know how to monitor and benchmark your drives. CrystalDiskInfo is especially useful to monitor your drives. Hard drives often do go bad and they can often be spotted before a complete fail.
Thanks for Reading
Note: If you are looking to benchmark other parts of your system, please check out this tutorial created by Jake Wenta.
Introduction
In this tutorial we will be benchmarking our drives to see how well they perform as well as using a program to monitor them.
Step 1
Download CrystalDiskMark from here. This program will benchmark your drives.
Download CrystalDiskInfo from here. This program allows you to monitor the condition and state of your drives.
Step 2
Install CrystalDiskMark and CrystalDiskInfo and then run them. CrystalDiskInfo is self explanatory and it gives you a system analysis of the drives upon startup. The steps below explain how to use CrystalDiskMark, the benchmarking tool.
Step 3
Now we can select a drive. This can be done by selecting the desired drive from the drop down menu towards the top right hand side of the screen.
Step 4
To the left from where we just selected a drive, there are two options. The farthest on the right begins the benchmark. The middle one gives you the option of how many times you want to run a test to get consistent results and the one to the right let's you select how big of a test file you wish test off of. If you are new to this, leave it all at default.
Step 5
You can choose how you wish to test the drive. By Clicking "File" --> "Test Data" you can choose what you wish. I recommend leaving it at default unless you know what you are doing.
Step 6
You can click "All" to begin running all the standard tests or you click them individually. Please note benchmarking SSD's consistency MAY deteriorate their performance. If you are testing an OS drive it is common to experience low performance and lagg.
Recap
You should now know how to monitor and benchmark your drives. CrystalDiskInfo is especially useful to monitor your drives. Hard drives often do go bad and they can often be spotted before a complete fail.
Thanks for Reading
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