Hard Drive Benchmarking software?

Did you ever find some Mac benchmarking software for hard drives? I know a couple for Windows, but I need to find one for Mac.

Try AJA KONA System Test. You can download it for free from here.

Thanks, watergun. The new version.

What are the average speeds for a 2TB Hitachi Drive in a iMac late 2009 27"? Where can I get these results?

My iMac was the first weeks really fast and now it slows down and when I am rendering in AfterEffects, for example, then it needs a lot more time than before and it slows everything else down. Opening a windows in finder even provoces the watch-colour-simbol.

My speeds are like FW800: 89.4MB/s Write and 84.3MB/s Read. This can't be right can it? Is the internal Harddrive not connected with eSata?

@fingernagel my external hard drive using eSata express card adapter on my macbook pro gets an average score of 88.6 MBPS read and 85.8 MBPS write

Ok. Weird. I thought that E-Sata is much more faster. Thanks for your (late) reply.

Found this via Google search.

The best HDD benchmark on the Mac is the Black disk speed test. You can get it on the App store free.

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/blackmagic-disk-speed-test/id425264550?mt=12

miscend said:

Found this via Google search.

The best HDD benchmark on the Mac is the Black disk speed test. You can get it on the App store free.

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/blackmagic-disk-speed-test/id425264550?mt=12

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I use this and am very satisfied with it. For some reason, I couldn't get AJA to work on Lion.

fingernagel said:

Ok. Weird. I thought that E-Sata is much more faster. Thanks for your (late) reply.

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External SATA (E-SATA) is potentially just as fast as internal SATA, but the biggest limiting factor is usually the drive itself. A lot is going to depend on exactly what you're transferring anyways. Larger files vs a lot of smaller files, even for the same total amount of data transferred will affect the transfer speed, as will other activity on the bus.

jW