Showing posts with label BenchMe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BenchMe. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

BenchMe - free application for testing storage devices

BenchMe - a free application for benchmarking storage devices. With it, users of personal computers will be able to assess the performance of hard disk drives, portable USB-drives, memory cards, etc.

BenchMe interface is simple to use and most people do not even pay attention to the lack of tool tips, help and additional documentation. Select the device you want to test from the drop down list, and click on the «Start». Application immediately started to check, and some time will display a detailed report

BenchMe not only defines the model of the device and its main characteristics, but also provides more detailed information of interest to professionals and casual users. In particular, you will know whether your hard drive modern technologies such as SMART, Automatic Acoustic Management, Native Command Queuing and Tagged Command Queuing, TRIM and many others.

The report also displays the results of the tests that will evaluate the key performance characteristics of the device, such as the speed of operations for writing and reading data, the maximum, minimum and average access time, etc.