Blackmagic Disk Speed Test Alternatives

One of the most popular alternatives to Blackmagic Disk Speed Test is CrystalDiskMark, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are HD Tune, Cross Platform Disk Test, UserBenchMark and KDiskMark. You're spoiled for choice with Benchmark Tools like Blackmagic Disk Speed Test: we list more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, self-hosting and the web.

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    Vdbench

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    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, Solaris, Linux, AIX, OS/X and HP/UX.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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    DiskMark

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Disk Bench

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    An example of the 'Copy File' test. This test was done with a MP4 video that is 204MB in size. Note that you can tell Disk Bench to delete the copyed file once the test is finished.
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    SQLIO

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    SQLIO is a tool provided by Microsoft which can also be used to determine the I/O capacity of a given configuration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Physical Disk Speed Monitor

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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Physical Disk Speed Monitor screenshot 1
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  8. C

    Cold-cache Sequential I/O Benchmark

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. diglloydTools DiskTester icon

    diglloydTools DiskTester

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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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    diglloydTools DiskTester screenshot 1
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    Load DynamiX

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    2U load generation appliance, also runs under a VM, A leading commercial performance validation product for networked storage infrastructure. We help companies reduce risk and save millions of dollars by aligning storage deployment decisions to application workload performance...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
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  11. Flash Memory Toolkit icon

    Flash Memory Toolkit

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    Flash Memory Toolkit is a small package which has some very useful options like file recovery, benchmark and error scanning.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. SSD Booster .NET icon

    SSD Booster .NET

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    SSD Booster .NET Edition is a portable utility designed to help boost SSD efficiency and maintain peak performance.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    DiskSpeed

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    DiskSpeed benchmarks sequential read/write speed and random 4K IOPS for internal SSDs and external drives, with live throughput monitoring, configurable test sizes, and saved history for comparing drives over time. DiskSpeed is included in every getapps.cafe subscription.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • US flagUnited States
    DiskSpeed screenshot 1
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  14. QuickBench icon

    QuickBench

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    QuickBench screenshot 1
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