Re: Interesting speed benchmarks

Stefan Ehmann writes:
> On Friday 26 January 2007 13:35, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> > On 1/26/07, Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft_at_gmx.net> wrote:
> > > On Friday 26 January 2007 11:00, Alexey Karagodov wrote:
> > > > what manufacturer says about usb speeds?
> > > > that is the question
> > >
> > > Well, "up to 56MB/s" which is pretty much full USB2 speed.
> > >
> > > But writing it on the box doesn't mean the speed can actually be reached.
> > >
> > > Benchmarking on windows might be interesting, but I don't know how to
> > > measure raw disk io on windows.
> >
> > Format the disk, copy a large file to/from it, divide
> > its size by time spent, add the word "approximately" :-)
> 
> I'd rather not format a drive with my backups and other stuff on it :-)
>

If you want to test under windows then you could use hdbench from c't
magazine. I think it has a non-destructive mode. It's what they use to
do all their disk tests.

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