Alternatives to Blackmagic Disk Speed Test for all platforms with any license

CrystalDiskMark

CrystalDiskMark is a small HDD benchmark utility for your hard drive that enable you to rapidly measure sequential and random read/write speeds.

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
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HD Tune

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.)...

Freemium $ $ $ Windows
Hardware Monitoring Quick/slow surface scan Support for S.M.A.R.T. data Temperature Monitoring Add a feature

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UserBenchMark

Still hankering for the day that you pulled your new PC out of the box, plugged it in and it just worked? UserBenchmark is a free all-in-one benchmarking application....

Free Windows
Portable Add a feature

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AS SSD Benchmark

With AS SSD Benchmark you can determine your SSD drive's performance by conducting several specific tests. Test the sequential or random read/write performance...

Free Windows
Portable Solid Add a feature

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fio

Generate I/O for benchmarking, stress testing, verification or workload reproduction purposes.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
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Diskspd

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...

Free Open Source Windows
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HD Speed

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

Free Windows
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AJA System Test

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.
- Very Similar functionality and design Guest • Sep 2018
Free Mac Windows
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Iometer

As the Iometer Users Guide says, Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems. It was originally developed by the...
- Discontinued Last activity from 2014, see https://sourceforge.net/projects/iometer/files/iometer-stable/
Free Open Source Windows Linux
Hardware Monitoring Stress Testing Add a feature

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IOzone

IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations. Iozone is useful for performing a broad filesystem analysis...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
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Vdbench

Vdbench is a disk and tape I/O workload generator for verifying data integrity and measuring performance of direct attached and network connected storage on Windows...

Free Open Source Windows Linux
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Disk Bench

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...

Free Windows
Portable Add a feature

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DiskMark

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

Free Open Source Windows
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SQLIO

SQLIO is a tool provided by Microsoft which can also be used to determine the I/O capacity of a given configuration.
- Discontinued Replaced by Microsoft's open source utility Diskspd. See http://alternativeto.net/software/diskspd/
Free Windows
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DiskMark

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

Commercial $ $ $ Mac
Hardware Monitoring Add a feature

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