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ZrByte · 12-02-2004, 04:11

Sorry about the consecutive post but I didnt want to double edit the above post incase anybody who may be able to help doesnt check back because they think I havent posted again.

The program is useful, while it doesnt do exactly what I wanted it to do it does allow me to see hard drive usage in a similar way to how Network, CPU & Memory usage are displayed in windows task manager.

Strangley enough I cant use it to test my own transfers as it seems to severeley slow down the very transfer it is monitoring.
However if I check the box to test the Burst rate on the drive I can get the figures I need.

I dont think it is measuring the speed of the Drive in question accuratley though, this USB2.0 (480MB/s) hard drive is showing up at mereley 20MB/s Wheras my UDMA 100 Seagate barracuda is showing at 66MB/s and My Maxtor UDMA 133 is showing up at 105MB/s and my IBM udma 100 is showing up at 80MB/s.

It is possible that this drive is Just slow and thus needs replacing but it doesnt appear to be slow when I use it, infact transfers between the USB drive and the Maxtor drive are a few seconds faster than transfers between the Seagate drive and the maxtor drive so this leads me to think that this program doesnt measure USB speeds accuratley.

I must say it looks as though I should rearange my Drives slightly
Currently I boot off the Seagate (66MB/s 40GB)
Use the Maxtor as a small Data drive (105MB/s 40GB)

Looks like I should boot off the maxtor from now on wouldnt you say?

12-02-2004, 04:11	#5
ZrByte Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Wirral / Ex CWC Area Age: 43 Posts: 3,251	Re: Program to measure speed of Hdd? Sorry about the consecutive post but I didnt want to double edit the above post incase anybody who may be able to help doesnt check back because they think I havent posted again. The program is useful, while it doesnt do exactly what I wanted it to do it does allow me to see hard drive usage in a similar way to how Network, CPU & Memory usage are displayed in windows task manager. Strangley enough I cant use it to test my own transfers as it seems to severeley slow down the very transfer it is monitoring. However if I check the box to test the Burst rate on the drive I can get the figures I need. I dont think it is measuring the speed of the Drive in question accuratley though, this USB2.0 (480MB/s) hard drive is showing up at mereley 20MB/s Wheras my UDMA 100 Seagate barracuda is showing at 66MB/s and My Maxtor UDMA 133 is showing up at 105MB/s and my IBM udma 100 is showing up at 80MB/s. It is possible that this drive is Just slow and thus needs replacing but it doesnt appear to be slow when I use it, infact transfers between the USB drive and the Maxtor drive are a few seconds faster than transfers between the Seagate drive and the maxtor drive so this leads me to think that this program doesnt measure USB speeds accuratley. I must say it looks as though I should rearange my Drives slightly Currently I boot off the Seagate (66MB/s 40GB) Use the Maxtor as a small Data drive (105MB/s 40GB) Looks like I should boot off the maxtor from now on wouldnt you say?