HDD benchmark software

[Sharft6]

hey there

I recently purchased a samsung spinpoint F1 750GB and i'm trying to work out weather it is performing as good as it should.

I was just wonder what accurate HDD benchmarking software is out there and also what application toms hardware uses for their charts so i can compare my results.

 

[jumpman]

Well I can tell you that HDTach is a commonly used program and is fairly accurate. As far as what Toms uses for their benchmarks, I couldn't tell you, but I'm sure someone else on the forum can.

 

[rockbyter]

sisoft sandra will give you a good comparison

 

[Sharft6]

HDTach doesn't work with vista but sisoft sandra... wow! never again will i be looking for a piece of software to benchmark something

dam i've just had a look on the toms hardware charts and the 750GB one is much slower than the 1TB one! ah well i might just have to raid this one. I'm running out of storage with this anyway... kinda... as long as i don't delete my horde of junk.

 

[noexpert]

HD Tune is good. I recommend that. Lets you benchmark it, scan for errors, displays temps.
http://www.hdtune.com/

Also SpeedFan has S.M.A.R.T tab that gives details of the hard disks condition. Theres also a button to peform an online analysis.

Check my thread on how the online analysis looks. I think its quite good because I've been having slow downs with my hdd.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/245357-14-hard-disk-failing

 

[Sharft6]

speedfan doesn't detect my hdd but i tried that hdtune and i like it shows everything i want to know in an easy to read format.

btw noexpert i dunno what os you are running but i'm on vista and in hdd properties in device manager under policies is an option to enable advanced performance. i found enabling it reduce the amount of spikes for benchmarking (not noticeable in the real world) dramatically but i'm also into my overclocking with a crappy psu. one time my computer crashed with this option enabled and i ended up having to do a system restore then i found all of the .cfgs on my hdd had vanished. i don't recommend this option to anyone without system restore enabled and their computer is unstable enough to crash at least once since they have had it.

 

[noexpert]

After selecting the S.M.A.R.T tab did you select the HDD from a drop down menu just in case. Btw i'm on XP, but thanks for the info I didn't know it would do that, hope nothing seriously affected.

 

[olymind1]

On the tests of tomshardware H2benchw 3.16 is written. I havent try it yet, but you can get it from here eg http://www.heise.de/download/h2benchw.html