New HD in MBP, how do I Benchmark it?

[erkanasu]

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]

http://www.xbench.com/ has disk tests.

 

[erkanasu]

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]

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.

 

[erkanasu]

Scratch That, the website has a great comparison setup! thanks

 

[phungy]

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]

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]

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.