Alternatives to Cold-cache Sequential I/O Benchmark for all platforms with any license

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
Portable Add a feature

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Blackmagic Disk Speed Test

Disk Speed Test is an easy to use tool to quickly measure and certify your disk performance for working with high quality video! Simply click the start button and Disk...

Free Mac
No features added Add a feature

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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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Macrorit Disk Scanner

Macrorit Disk Scanner is a third party disk surface portable tool for scan disk bad sectors which provides you with better options and better performance than Windows...

Free Windows
Hardware Monitoring Portable Add a feature

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PassMark DiskCheckup

PassMark DiskCheckup allows the user to monitor the SMART attributes of a particular hard disk drive. SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a...

Free Personal Windows
Support for S.M.A.R.T. data Add a feature

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ATTO Disk Benchmark

The ATTO Disk Benchmark performance measurement tool is compatible with Microsoft Windows. Measure your storage systems performance with various transfer sizes and test...

Free Windows
Portable Add a feature

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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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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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