PassMark PerformanceTest benchmarks the speed of your PC computer hardware, then compares the result to other machines. Includes disk, 3D and CPU tests.



CrystalDiskMark is described as 'Efficient tool for measuring HDD and SSD performance through sequential and random read/write speed tests, featuring a user-friendly interface' and is a very popular Benchmark tool in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to CrystalDiskMark for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best CrystalDiskMark alternative is AmorphousDiskMark, which is free. Other great apps like CrystalDiskMark are HD Tune, KDiskMark, Cross Platform Disk Test and UserBenchMark.
PassMark PerformanceTest benchmarks the speed of your PC computer hardware, then compares the result to other machines. Includes disk, 3D and CPU tests.



From the makers of CPU-Z, the PC WIZARD is among the most advanced system information programs on the market. PC WIZARD 2008 is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some more analysis.



HD Tach is a low level hardware benchmark for random access read/write storage devices such as hard drives, removable drives (ZIP/JAZZ), flash devices, and RAID arrays. HD Tach uses custom device drivers and other low level Windows interfaces to bypass as many layers of software...

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.



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 Intel Corporation and announced at the Intel Developers Forum (IDF) on February 17, 1998 - since then it got...



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


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

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 native disk scanner.

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.

With the introduction of USB-C disk support on iPhone 15 Pro, there’s a world of storage opportunities available. But how do you ensure your external drive isn’t going to drop frames?




Compare read and write speed of USB Flash drives: USBDeview is a small utility that lists all USB devices that currently connected to your computer, as well as all USB devices that you previously used.

Not used for disk benchmarking


No way to use the program on Linux without a secondary Windows installation.