Determining the speed of the hard disk

Some users do not consider it important to consider the speed of the hard drive. But there is a direct relationship for performance, speed of the entire computer. Depends on the speed of loading the OS, and running programs, and copying files, sharing data and more.

Checking the speed of the hard disk is possible through some utilities. But before starting the utility, turn off the computer for 15 minutes, the test should be performed better when the system has not received a large load.

Utilities to check

Crystaldiskmark

It is considered an excellent utility that helps to check, test the speed of data exchange when receiving information, transfer. The program is simple, with a small number of functions, a simple interface, everyone will be able to understand it, even without knowing English.

The hard disk speed test is performed by this utility in this order.

  • In the program window, select the number of write cycles, read. The best is 5.
  • Mark the file size; 1 GIB is recommended.
  • Select a drive letter (C :).

CrystalDiskMark Setup

  • Click the "All" button to begin testing.

The program will show the speed of the hard disk - reading information, it will be in 1 column - Read. In the second column you will see the speed of writing to the hard drive. For SSD, 400 Mb / s is considered optimal, if it is connected via SATA3.

To save the results of the performance check, take a screenshot or in the Edit menu, select Copy Test Results, a text report will be created automatically.

AS SSD Benchmark

Excellent utility that makes it easy, quick testing of the hard drive. You do not need to install the utility. It should be used according to the same algorithm as in the above described utility.

HD Tune

The program that performs the hard drive test. It has a free version and paid (Pro). The paid version without registration has a demo period of 15 days.

  • Run the program.
  • Go to the “Benchmark” tab, select the mode in which the test will be performed: “Write” or “Read”.

HD Tune

  • If your computer has several hard drives, select the one you need to check.
  • Click “Start” to start the scan.

After completing the test, the program will show the results in numbers and graphs. You will learn the following data transfer rates:

  • Minimum - the smallest;
  • Maximum - the largest (usually it is said by the manufacturers);
  • RateAverage - average;
  • BurstRate - peak (often given as real speed, but under normal conditions is not always achieved);
  • CPUUsage - CPU load during testing.

After completing the test, finding out the results, you will probably wonder how to increase the speed of data exchange with the disk. After all, if the speed of data exchange with the disk decreases, and there may be many reasons for this, you need to make the computer act faster. There are several ways to speed up the speed of information storage.

  • Defragmentation.
  • Cleaning up registry errors, garbage.
  • Archiving rarely used files.
  • The application of the program, which will reveal violations of the structure of sections, then correct - Rat.

Now you can find out what the actual speed of your hard drive is, compare it with the manufacturer, how to increase it. This information will surely help you, optimize the work on the computer, will contribute to the analysis of the hard drive performance and its improvement.