Testing ssd drive

What is the best program to test the speed of a ssd drive?

 

hm.. "as ssd benchmark" is quite nice

 

thank you for the info

 

The (software apps) you normally use?

Timed with a stopwatch and compared to your previous, mechanical drive (of course).

Benchmarks are nice numbers, but they can be easily 'optimized' into certain SSD controllers to give back the 'wow' numbers claimed by their manufacturers.

Stop watches are not so easily influenced and are real eye openers as to the real gains you get (usually in the seconds range) for spending several times the cost of a mechanical HD.

Don't get me wrong - I too want/need an SSD that lives up the the hype - but unless you have a very specific use for them (searching/updating/using a large 'n messy database or reading several GB's worth of PDF's multiple times a day) they not only fail the 'are they worth it for the money test', but can even be worse than the mechanical HD you want them to replace.

See:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=436882&highlight=The+SSD+Myth+Exposed


I know you're looking for a different type of answer - but this response may be the most relevant answer to what you really want answered: how much faster is my SSD over my mechanical HD.

Good luck.

 

There are many programs that would help. On my system right now I have Crystal Disk Mark which is my fav, but also AS SSD, HDTune, HDTach and ATTO.

Try and educate yourself to what the numbers mean before you jump on anything in particular.

For example, I have attached a Crystal report for my Intel X-25 SSD along with the Samsung SSD I owned before it.

You will see that the new ssd has an amazing sequential read score of 256mb/s for sequential read of a document 1000mb in size. Sounds great eh? This is where everyone looks for performance yet one of the least used access methods for the ssd. Its hardly ever used. How often do you think you will be readin and writing files that big?

Now, the bread and butter of the ssd lies down below in the 4k random read and write scores. They look pretty bad eh? Actually the Intel is top dog for these scores and they are pretty amazing. This is why I attached the samsung as well...compare the two scores... Big difference eh?!?!?!?

The method MOST accessed is 4K random write...

So...do you think you might notice the difference in the Intel which performs this function 7 times faster??? This now brings me to the other drives and the Vertex...

When choosing, make an educated choice and take a close look at the 4k random reads and writes vice the mindblowing top scores everyone is amazed with...

 

you could try Bench32

http://downloadsoftwareuniverse.com/download.php?view.4332

 

Agreed, I bought an SSD to use it, not to bench the heck out of it and wonder why I'm not getting the same numbers as reviewers online get. I would only use benchmarks if there was something seemingly not right with the setup, if things seemed slower than the HDD it replaced.

I can say that I never look for HDD's now for laptops if storage isn't an issue.