Hard Drive Tests

[mlee49]

Hey I just added a second IDE hard drive to my rig and I was trying to make sense out of it's preformance, thus wanted to find a hard drive test I understand. I used Everest and used a few of the tests but didn't uderstand much about the test. If anyone has some explination of the test or better test that I could compare results to that would be great. Here's the specs:

Main drive~ Western Digital 80 Gig speed unkown
Back Up IDE~ Seagate 80 Gig speed unkown

Basically I want to see how fast these drives are in comparison to other drives.

[ex_reven]

try hdtach

[ex_reven]

Maybe these.
Probably good to run tests with several programs to check for anomalous results, but dont compare benchmarks between programs.


SiSoft Sandra, Atto, PCMark, HD Tach

[francis511]

Or hdtune , but it`s very like hdtach