HD Speed AlternativesBenchmark & Hard Disk Benchmark Tools like HD Speed

HD Speed is described as 'Measures both sustained and burst data transfer rates of your hard disks, cd/dvd-roms, flash cards/sticks, floppys, etc. Realtime graphical display' and is a Benchmark tool in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to HD Speed for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Snapcraft apps. The best HD Speed alternative is CrystalDiskMark, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like HD Speed are HD Tune, Cross Platform Disk Test, KDiskMark and USBDeview.

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  1. CrystalDiskMark icon

    CrystalDiskMark

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    Versatile benchmarking utility to assess drive performance, offering rapid sequential/random speed tests, easy-to-read results, multilingual support, and more, all in a free package.

    41 CrystalDiskMark alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • CrystalDiskMark is the most popular Windows alternative to HD Speed.

    • CrystalDiskMark is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to HD Speed.

    • CrystalDiskMark is Free and Open SourceHD Speed is Free and Proprietary
    • CrystalDiskMark is Lightweight and Privacy focusedHD Speed is not according to our users
  2. HD Tune icon

    HD Tune

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    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.), securely erase all data and more!.

    54 HD Tune alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. Cross Platform Disk Test icon

    Cross Platform Disk Test

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    Measuring storage performance (SSD, HDD, USB Flash etc.) and RAM speed across Windows, macOS, Linux and Android devices. Random and sequential throughput (read/write operations) is calculted in MB/s and can be compared in consistent and reliable manner between mobile and desktop...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
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    • Cross Platform Disk Test is the most popular Android, Mac & Linux alternative to HD Speed.

    • Cross Platform Disk Test is Free and Open SourceHD Speed is Free and Proprietary
  6. USBDeview icon

    USBDeview

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    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.

    16 USBDeview alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. Blackmagic Disk Speed Test icon

    Blackmagic Disk Speed Test

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    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 Speed Test will write test your disk using large blocks of data, and then display the result.

    24 Blackmagic Disk Speed Test alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  9. InchWest DiskMark icon

    InchWest DiskMark

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

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    • InchWest DiskMark is the most popular commercial alternative to HD Speed.

    • InchWest DiskMark is Paid and ProprietaryHD Speed is Free and Proprietary
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    Xbench

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    Xbench was developed by Spiny Software to provide a comprehensive benchmarking solution for Mac OS X. Xbench is useful not only for comparing the relative speeds of two different Macintoshes, but also for optimizing performance on a single machine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  11. FlashBench (USB Flash Benchmark)

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    test usb speed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Disk Bench icon

    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 types

    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.
     
  14. Physical Disk Speed Monitor icon

    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
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