Xbench is described as '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' and is a Benchmark tool in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Xbench for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best Xbench alternative is CrystalDiskMark, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Xbench are AIDA64, UNIGINE Benchmarks, Cinebench and Geekbench.
Linpack is a benchmark and the most aggressive stress testing software available today. Best used to test stability of overclocked PCs. Linpack tends to crash unstable PCs in a shorter period of time compared to other stress testing applications.
Measures both sustained and burst data transfer rates of your hard disks, cd/dvd-roms, flash cards/sticks, floppys, etc. Realtime graphical display.
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.
iBench is constituted by a bunch of 21 tests (12 of integer workload and 9 of floating point) of real usage that allows you to check and compare the CPU and memory subsystem performance of your Macintosh.
Flash Memory Toolkit is a small package which has some very useful options like file recovery, benchmark and error scanning.
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.
DiskTester is a 64-bit application which tests drive performance and reliability for single volumes or RAID. Some highlights:
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