Just upgraded to SSD? Do you want to see how fast your hard drive is? Then welcome to basic benchmark testing. After reading this post, you will have your head around the basics of HDD and SSD benchmarks. The speed of your hard drive has an influential impact on the performance of your computer loading times as it serves and stores the information your processor uses.
Benchmark Software
The three of the most reliable software for testing the speed of your hard drive are:
Although all of these perform effectively, we recommend CrystalDiskMark to beginners. This is because:
- It works effectively with all drives.
- It has a clear and user-friendly interface.
Testing the Speed of Your Hard Drive With CrystalDiskMark
- Choose the hard drive.
- Keep the test size and the number of test values unchanged at default.
- Press the all button that is present at the top left corner of the interface. Wait until the benchmark results are displayed on your screen.
Interpreting the Results
The most important numbers are “seq” and “4K” results. Seq represents the sequential read/write speed. Whereas, the random read/write speed is represented by a 4K test.
- High seq results are a good sign, as these represent the loading time for large files. The higher the results, the faster you can load and install large files, such as programs and videos.
- The 4K result shows the speed with which your hard drive can access and create small files that are scattered in different places. Higher 4k results show that your hard drive has a good multi-tasking ability.
4K results are more important for operating boot drives. Mass storage drives, on the other hand, will be more effective if they have high seq results.
Give your drive a test and see your current speeds.
What is a good result?
An SSD is much faster than a standard drive, and it makes an instantly noticeable impact on your loading and startup times.
SSD’s are too powerful?
The creation of solid state has shifted the speed limitation from hard drives to the processor, it has gone from the slowest link to one of the fastest. The jump from mechanical HDD to SSD is huge and instantly noticeable. Given the super fast speed of SSD, even a heavy user rarely would see the benefit of a full 500 Mbps transfer speed. Because of this excessive performance, we recommend you don’t get to hung up on choosing the absolute best SSD as you will barley notice the difference between the low and top end SSD’s.
The future of data
This is just the beginning of another huge leap in data, once our internet bandwidth expands and VR becomes mainstream the performance of SSD’s will shine.
Upgrade your HDD to SSD and enjoy the speed!
If you are running an HDD and want to insanely increase your startup and loading times, switch to an SSD. Head over to our solid state drive page and get a super fast upgrade today.
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