Hard Disk Benchmark Tools

Efficient tool for measuring HDD and SSD performance through sequential and random read/write speed tests, featuring a user-friendly interface.

HD Tune is a hard disk / SSD utility with many functions. It can be used to measure the drive's performance, scan for errors, check the health status (S.M.A.R.T.), securely erase all data and more!.

A simple open-source disk benchmark tool for Linux distros.

Samsung Magician software is designed to help you manage your Samsung SSD with a simple, intuitive user interface. Download files and find supported models.

fio is an I/O tool meant for both for benchmark and stress/hardware verification. It has support for many different types of I/O engines, I/O priorities (on newer Linux kernels), rate limited I/O, forked or threaded jobs and much more.

The ATTO Disk Benchmark performance measurement tool is compatible with Microsoft Windows. Measure your storage systems performance with various transfer sizes and test lengths for reads and writes. Several options are available to customize your performance measurement...

AmorphousDiskMark measures storage read/write performance in MB/s and IOPS.

Nero Score! measures the multi-core performance of your processor (CPU) and pushes your graphics card (GPU) to its maximum limit with real-world multimedia use cases.

With AS SSD Benchmark you can determine your SSD drive's performance by conducting several specific tests.

A feature-rich and versatile storage testing tool, Diskspd (version 2.0.17) combines robust and granular IO workload definition with flexible runtime and output options, creating an ideal tool for synthetic storage subsystem testing and validation.

Aja System Test is an application included with all KONA cards which lets you tune your system to the same high standards that developers do for the best performance.

Test the performance of your flash (pen/usb), solid state, hard disk drives in just 60 seconds.

Measures both sustained and burst data transfer rates of your hard disks, cd/dvd-roms, flash cards/sticks, floppys, etc. Realtime graphical display.

I want to know how fast are my disks really are, in a real life situations. Not in a synthetic benchmarking program that will display figures that I will never be able to meet.

DiskMark is a small utility that allows you to benchmark your disks and hard drives performance.

Anvil's Storage Utilities is a powerful tool that comes packed with many useful features for helping you test the performance of a solid-state drive or hard disk drive.

This program has made to help see how a hard drive is doing. When a customer's machine is running rather slow, seeing the current speed of the drive helps in multiple ways. By seeing the speed of the drive I can tell if something is using the drive heavily or do a simple...

CCSIO Benchmark measures maximum sequential read/write speed that is realistically achievable for a given file system location, including local drives, remote network shares, virtual/pseudo devices such as RAM disks and encrypted file containers.

QuickBench is a simple to use but powerful hard disk performance benchmarking tool. It provides three built-in, industry trusted test suites which measure the performance of dozens of preset hard disk transfer sizes.

DiskTester is a 64-bit application which tests drive performance and reliability for single volumes or RAID. Some highlights: