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Originally Posted by ZrByte
Thanks, I thought this thread had been missed since I posted it when all the server problems where at thier worst.
Im gonna have a look at those utils now, see if there is anything of use to me.  Will post back in a bit once I have had a look.
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Sadly I cant seem to find anything of use. Anything I search for seems to turn up a shop to buy hard drives from. and none of the above catagories seem to fit
Just to clear things up a lil aswel, I dont want to benchmark my drive or anything like that, rather, when copying a file from one disk to another you get the windows dialogue showing you (Rather inacuratley) Transfer time remaining and a progress bar (Also very unacurate) showing you how much has transfered. What I would like is something more like the Internet explorer Dialogue when you download off a site, stating how large the file is (In KB, MB or GB) How much data you have so far (also in KB, MB or GB) and how fast it is transfering (Again in KB/s, or MB/s )
I know a method of doing this but it involves a lot of playing around with FTP's and I have no way of seeing how accurate this is to know if it is even reliable.
The reason I want to do this is to test My USB2.0 External Drive, I am in the process of RMA'ing the drive and it seems to have mysteriously come back to life. Occasionally there seems to be spikes in the windows progress bar when the transfer times increase from something like 30mins to 1hr30mins, this could be due to the drive getting ready to flake out again or Just a fault in the windows Tranfer progress Dialogue. However if I could see how fast the drive is transfering in KB/s or MB/s I would know if it was the drive at fault.
Did that make sense
Edit: think I may have found one
http://www.webattack.com/get/hdspeed.html
will let you know if its anygood.