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.
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- Free
- Proprietary
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- Windows
Blackmagic Disk Speed Test Alternatives for Windows
Blackmagic Disk Speed Test is not available for Windows but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality. The best Windows alternative is CrystalDiskMark, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Blackmagic Disk Speed Test and many of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Blackmagic Disk Speed Test are HD Tune, Cross Platform Disk Test, UserBenchMark and fio.
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15 DiskMark alternativesDiskMark is a small utility that allows you to benchmark your disks and hard drives performance.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Windows
SQLIO is a tool provided by Microsoft which can also be used to determine the I/O capacity of a given configuration.
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
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- Windows
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
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- Windows
- Self-Hosted
Load DynamiX is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Blackmagic Disk Speed Test.
- Load DynamiX is Paid and Proprietary
Flash Memory Toolkit is a small package which has some very useful options like file recovery, benchmark and error scanning.
SSD Booster .NET Edition is a portable utility designed to help boost SSD efficiency and maintain peak performance.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
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
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- Mac
- Windows
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