HDD/SSD Drive Speed Thread

spirit · Oct 15, 2013

These are the default settings so you shouldn't need to change anything.

3 - Run the test on whichever drive you want to bench.

4 - Once the test has completed, open up Notepad and write the following in it:

- Your CF username and 'computerforum.com'
- The date
- The drive which you just benched, the size of the drive (including for RAM Disks) and the interface that it is running on.

Failure to include these details in your screenshot will result in your score not appearing on the leaderboards.

5 - Post the result!

Note about RAID-0 setups

Unless otherwise stated when posting your score, I will assume that you are using two drives in your RAID-0 configuration. The same is reflected in the leaderboards.

If you've already posted a score from a RAID-0 configuration that has more than two drives in the array, please let me know so that your leaderboard entry can be amended.

Note about Samsung SSDs

Please note that scores posted for Samsung SSDs with the RAPID mode enabled (enabled through Samsung Magician software) will not be appearing on the leaderboard because these scores are not a true representation of the drive's actual performance.

Instead, please run CrystalDiskMark with RAPID mode disabled.

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Here is what I have benched. I may bench a 240GB SanDisk Extreme SSD and a 128GB Crucial M4 in the near future.

SSD: OCZ Vertex 4 128GB (SATA 6GB/s)

Flash Drive: SanDisk Extreme USB 3.0 64GB (USB 3.0)

PCunicorn · Oct 15, 2013

Damn it, what about USB1 drives?!

JK I will post results tomorrow or the day after that. We have needed a thread like this

spirit · Oct 15, 2013

PCunicorn said:
Damn it, what about USB1 drives?! JK I will post results tomorrow or the day after that. We have needed a thread like this

If you can dig one up, you can bench a USB 1.0 or 1.1 drive if you want. There's nothing saying you can't.

speedx77x · Oct 15, 2013

You can also do this with Dxtory but this is probably better

FuryRosewood · Oct 15, 2013

I dont think this is a good place for this thread, wouldnt harddrives been better?

PCunicorn · Oct 15, 2013

Well it's for Flash drives to.

speedx77x · Oct 16, 2013

FuryRosewood said:
I dont think this is a good place for this thread, wouldnt harddrives been better?

Well its still General Computer Chat, but to be more specific; drives would be an ideal location

porterjw · Oct 16, 2013

I limit it to 60 in the work truck, 65-70 in the Sonata, and 65-130 in the Bird.

Oh...wrong type of drive speed...

Shane · Oct 16, 2013

Moved thread to "Computer Memory and Hard Drives"

Will post up some scores from my Raid0 Vertex2 (Sata 3GB/s) tomorrow and one from my Kingston Data traveler USB 3.0

Gooberman · Oct 16, 2013

Crucial M4 64GB with 40GB partition(other is arch linux xD)

Raid 0 WD blue 1TB(minus 50GB for driver storage and stuff)

spirit · Oct 16, 2013

Yeah I agree it's now in a better location, sorry.

Good to see some scores already. I remember the M4 had good read speeds but not so good write speeds.

Shane · Oct 16, 2013

Here we go.

Slow compared to you guys,The drives are getting old but still good performers,I plan to upgrade eventually to a 250+GB Sata3 SSD but they're too pricy atm.

2x 60GB OCZ Vertex2 LE Raid0

spirit · Oct 16, 2013

WD Caviar Green 2TB

Virssagòn · Oct 17, 2013

spirit said:
WD Caviar Green 2TB

Is there a difference between the x64 and x32 version? (difference in score I mean?)

Also maybe include pci express drives? And ram?

PCunicorn · Oct 17, 2013

Actually a RAM speed test thread would be cool, but RAM is seperated from HDDs. And if you mean testing RAM disks, that's useless I think.

Darren · Oct 17, 2013

I'll do mine when I get home. Good idea for a thread.

Virssagòn · Oct 17, 2013

PCunicorn said:
Actually a RAM speed test thread would be cool, but RAM is seperated from HDDs. And if you mean testing RAM disks, that's useless I think.

Not anymore, soon there will be DDR4 with basic amount of 8-16GB ram and max 100+GB (idk the exact amount) ram for professionals! So you can easily split up half your ram to make a ramdisk

PCunicorn · Oct 17, 2013

Lol yes, but SSD speed will also be much faster when DDR4 gets down to the price per GB of an SSD (Which I doubt it ever will)

Virssagòn · Oct 17, 2013

PCunicorn said:
Lol yes, but SSD speed will also be much faster when DDR4 gets down to the price per GB of an SSD (Which I doubt it ever will)

Ram is an essential piece of hardware + when DDR4 becomes the norm, it will be as cheap as DDR3 now, but in much greater capacity. + SSDs will never be as fast as a ramdisk.

Anyway, here is slow my centon usb 2.0 (idk the real model name of it)

Ramdisk of my ram:

spirit · Oct 17, 2013

SmileMan said:
Is there a difference between the x64 and x32 version? (difference in score I mean?)

Also maybe include pci express drives? And ram?

I'm not sure if there is a score difference between the x86 and x64 versions of Crystal Disk or not. I just downloaded the x86 version since it looks like the x64 is in beta.

I left the thread title quite open, so yeah go ahead and post RAM disks and PCI Express drives.

I think if I do make a leaderboard for this thread eventually I might just make 'Fastest Read Speed' and 'Fastest Write Speed' since I think there's going to be a lot of different drives which people are testing. That sounds fine to me, what do other people think?

SmileMan said:
Ramdisk of my ram:

Fast!!

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