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lbeck

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Dec 5, 2009
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What is the standard tool to test your hard drives read/write speeds? I'd like to test my new SSD to see how fast it really is.

I've heard you cant trust XBench for that which is the only thing I have to use.
 

lbeck

macrumors 6502
Original poster
Dec 5, 2009
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Wow! So the larger file size you use and the larger video frame rate the better the result you get. I guess it puts your drive to work harder to see how fast it reall can be.

I did the 1GB file at 1920 x 1080 10 bit and got ...

Read 270.1
Write 254.6

Smokin!!!
 

DoFoT9

macrumors P6
Jun 11, 2007
17,586
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London, United Kingdom
Wow! So the larger file size you use and the larger video frame rate the better the result you get. I guess it puts your drive to work harder to see how fast it reall can be.

I did the 1GB file at 1920 x 1080 10 bit and got ...

Read 270.1
Write 254.6

Smokin!!!
how do you know its smokin? it might be bad unless you compare to others :p
 
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