Posted By: Dattatreya Mandal July 19, Hard Disk HD is one of the important components of a computer. In fact, it is the brain of a computer. Those who use the internet frequently are always found complaining that their system is not performing well because the HD might not be working properly. But now there is a software with the help of which you can check the speed and performance of your HD.
Below is a list of five best HD speed testers for Windows It is one of the best software that can read and write the speed instantly. Just right-click on the hard drive and test its performance. The software is totally free and can be used in any home, work or school computer. Sequential reading and writing: it is mainly for measuring the speed of hard drive when transferring large files like copying movie videos.
A high sequential read speed can also lower the loading time of larger files or programs like games. It is more important for mass storage drives like external disk drives. Click to tweet. If you find your external drives run very slow after the hard drive benchmarking, you may try these ways to improve the speed of your hard drive.
MiniTool Partition Wizard has many other features and capabilities. If there are bad sectors on hard disk, then it will slow down the speed of hard drive. You can easily check whether your hard drive has bad sectors for free with MiniTool Partition Wizard disk surface test feature. Step 1. Launch MiniTool Partition Wizard and right-click the target disk. Choose Surface Test option. Step 2. In the Surface Test window, you can just click Start Now and this program will scan the hard drive immediately.
Step 3. After the disk testing, it will tell you if your hard drive has some bad sectors. If so, it will be marked red, if not, it will be marked green. If your hard drive has some bad sectors, you can use some professional software to bypass bad sectors, or send it to professional disk repair stores. If nothing helps, you can change a new drive. Recommended reading: How to recover lost data from a broken hard drive.
In case the hard drive is filled up, you may clean up some unnecessary files, especially those with large file sizes, to free up some storage space. Check how to easily check which files have large file sizes on your hard drive and choose to delete them with MiniTool Partition Wizard space analyzer feature below.
Double-click MiniTool Partition Wizard software icon on screen to enter into its main interface. Click Space Analyzer function. Then choose a drive and click Scan. The folders are listed in descending order. A fragmented hard drive may also be slow. Huge amount of fragmented files will slow down the hard drive read and transfer speed a lot. To defragment hard drive in Windows 10 can pull the scattered pieces of a file into single data block. Therefore, it can reduce the data access time on a hard drive.
The program tests blocks one by one from minimum to maximum. In Read mode device reads block of data and transfers it thorough interface to the host controller. The program reads block of data into a temporary buffer and measures time of operation for each block. In Erase mode the program prepares block of data field with special pattern and an LBA number. The program sends the block of data to the drive and the drive writes the block All previous data in the block on the drive will be overwritten with the pattern and cannot be recovered after that!
Butterfly Read mode is similar to Read mode difference only in blocks' order. Blocks are tested by pairs. The first block in the first pair will be Block 0, the second block in the first pair will be Block N where N is number of last block for testing. Next pair will be Block 1 and Block N Test ends in the middle of the testing area.
The program measures operation time. Tasks Manager window This window shows a tasks queue. Test information window This window contains information about selected test. Graph Tab: Displays testing speed for each block.
Information is represented as a graph. Map Tab: Displays response time for each block. Information is represented as a map.
Identity information Report contains information about physical and logical parameters of HDD. Temperature monitor Monitor allows evaluating HDD's temperature. The first value indicates temperature from Airflow Temperature attribute. The first value indicates maximum allowed temperature for HDD. The test inspects drive's main electronics, scans small part of drive's surface and checks sectors from the Pending-list such sectors may have read errors.
This test recommended for a quick drive testing. Extended test - could take 0. The test inspects drive's main electronics and scans the whole drive's surface. Conveyance test - usually lasts several minutes.
The test inspects drive's main electronics and logs that may have records which could indicate incorrect transportation or storing. If this function enabled drive's noise may be decreased by smoothing HSA's seek operations.
HDD could lose some performance. APM - this function allows power savings by temporary decreasing spindle's rotation speed including complete stop when drive is in idle.
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