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Is there a way using a software that can measure the speed of my HDD.

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you mean how fast it spins or how fast its able to deal with data ?

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Crystalmark

(I guess you mean in MB/s and not rpm??)

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you mean how fast it spins or how fast its able to deal with data ?

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CrystalDiskMark is probably what you're looking for or HD Tune but that's paid(but does have a free trial).

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Put it inside a potato. BTW what happened to the build off? Voting was supposed to start wasn't it? 

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Crystaldiskmark like pretty much everyone says or will say.

 

It's probably going to be around 130 read, 33 write in sequentials.

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It's probably going to be around 130 read, 33 write in sequentials.

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Because mechanical hard drive. Because latencies, because caching. Most mechanical hard drives max out at this speed if they are normal 7200rpm drives.

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Because mechanical hard drive. Because latencies, because caching. Most mechanical hard drives max out at this speed if they are normal 7200rpm drives.

I decided to bench my WD Blue 1TB drive. Running W10.

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Because mechanical hard drive. Because latencies, because caching. Most mechanical hard drives max out at this speed if they are normal 7200rpm drives.

 

My usb hdd has higher writes than 33. Never heard that one before, there you go:

I decided to bench my WD Blue 1TB drive. Running W10.

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I decided to bench my WD Blue 1TB drive. Running W10.

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odd. Never happens with mine. never mind.

 

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CrystalDiskMark 4.0.3 x64 © 2007-2015 hiyohiyo
                           Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [sATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes
 
   Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) :   184.763 MB/s
  Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) :   179.682 MB/s
  Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) :     1.778 MB/s [   434.1 IOPS]
 Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) :     1.756 MB/s [   428.7 IOPS]
         Sequential Read (T= 1) :   183.509 MB/s
        Sequential Write (T= 1) :   180.572 MB/s
   Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) :     0.691 MB/s [   168.7 IOPS]
  Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) :     0.887 MB/s [   216.6 IOPS]
 
  Test : 1024 MiB [E: 25.9% (481.9/1863.0 GiB)] (x1)
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Crystaldiskmark like pretty much everyone says or will say.

 

It's probably going to be around 130 read, 33 write in sequentials.

I'd love to know the drive you're buying so I can avoid them. 130MB/s is something I'd expect from a drive that's been filled up quite a bit tbh, that's the only time I've a 7k drive do 130MB/s. 33MB/s for the writes?, I'd expect that from a flash drive or maybe even a high end SD card. Even a 5k drive should be doing above 33MB/s, I'd assume my drive was on its last legs if it was doing 33MB/s in sequential tests.

 

This is what my HDDs are putting out:

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That MD drive is quite the drive when it comes to sequential speeds, out the box it managed this:

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Is there a way using a software that can measure the speed of my HDD.

 

Hey there Codymm03,
 
For transfer speeds I would recommend doing a benchmark and then compare the numbers to the ones in the drive's spec sheet to see if it's working properly or not. For the RPM I would simply check the drive's specs by its brand and model model. If you provide the drive's brand and model maybe we can give yo a bit more info on the drive. :)
 
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Hey there Codymm03,
 
For transfer speeds I would recommend doing a benchmark and then compare the numbers to the ones in the drive's spec sheet to see if it's working properly or not. For the RPM I would simply check the drive's specs by its brand and model model. If you provide the drive's brand and model maybe we can give yo a bit more info on the drive. :)
 
Captain_WD.

 

He wasn't asking to check the health of his HDD, he was asking for program to find out his HDD's speeds.

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He wasn't asking to check the health of his HDD, he was asking for program to find out his HDD's speeds.

 

Benchmarking shows the maximum transfer speeds of a certain drive, which is different from doing a diagnostic test for the S.M.A.R.T. status. Each drive's spec sheet shows the transfer speeds that a drive is capable as well as rpm and other useful info about the drive's performance. If OP asks about this, they either haven't checked the spec sheet or the results differ which means they would like to double check if the drive is functioning properly. 

 

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Benchmarking shows the maximum transfer speeds of a certain drive, which is different from doing a diagnostic test for the S.M.A.R.T. status. Each drive's spec sheet shows the transfer speeds that a drive is capable as well as rpm and other useful info about the drive's performance. If OP asks about this, they either haven't checked the spec sheet or the results differ which means they would like to double check if the drive is functioning properly. 

 

Captain_WD.

whoops misread the post :P

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