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erkanasu
Jan 9, 2007, 03:35 PM
Just swapped out my wimpy 80 gb hd for a 160 GB Hitachi drive. How can I benchmark this hard drive to make sure everything is good to go?



jeremy.king
Jan 9, 2007, 03:41 PM
http://www.xbench.com/ has disk tests.

erkanasu
Jan 9, 2007, 05:13 PM
http://www.xbench.com/ has disk tests.

Great! Now how do I see if my HD is performing up to par? My disk test by its self had a score of 41.21

eluk
Jan 9, 2007, 05:20 PM
Great! Now how do I see if my HD is performing up to par? My disk test by its self had a score of 41.21

Link. (http://db.xbench.com/)

erkanasu
Jan 9, 2007, 05:20 PM
Scratch That, the website has a great comparison setup! thanks

phungy
Jan 9, 2007, 05:29 PM
I just ran xbench, which number should I look at? The very first (top) one?

If so, 110.67. I have no clue what the number means...(lower the better? higher the better?)

erkanasu
Jan 9, 2007, 06:24 PM
I just ran xbench, which number should I look at? The very first (top) one?

If so, 110.67. I have no clue what the number means...(lower the better? higher the better?)

Hey, Higher the better. My machine scored a 89.9

phungy
Jan 9, 2007, 06:34 PM
Cool! Well I have a Seagate 7200rpm 100GB though. I was only able to get 92.84. After OSX install and a few apps, I have 80.52GB free.