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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Benchmarking Disk Speed | Posted by: ArmorAlley on 2018-11-27 01:01:59
Hi everybody,
I'm thinking about measuring the speed of my various disks on my various Macs. Until now, I have used 2 measures: Speedometer 4 and the time taken to copy a folder with 95MB of 1000 or so small files, about 100 medium-sized files or 3 large files from one medium to another.
Does anybody have any other ideas for disk-measurements that could be made? There are other applications like MacBench, Norton SystemInfo etc. There is an application from ATTO (ExpressTools Pro?), whose graphs I sometimes see on old websites when measuring performance. Ideally. I would like to be able to use it on an SE running System 6 upwards.
In the end, I want to be able to compare disks and Macs with each other. If any of you have any ideas as to how it can be made more meaningful, then I would appreciate it. And, if I get my act together, I'll produce a spreadsheet with the results.
Thanks,
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| Posted by: Byrd on 2018-11-27 01:52:49
Norton System Info has always been my benchmark of choice, and seems to provide good real world results for HD speeds
| Posted by: Paralel on 2018-11-27 10:19:27
Agree with Byrd.
| Posted by: ArmorAlley on 2018-11-27 12:34:32
That's 2 thumbs up for Norton SystemInfo then. I'll give it a shot.
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