1. Disk Drive Performance Test
- Posted by "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com> Sep 20, 2001
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I want to test the read/write performance of my floppy disk drive on two systems. Can somebody provide some code that will allow me to do this? DOS or Win please... Thanks! ck
2. Re: Disk Drive Performance Test
- Posted by Martin Stachon <martin.stachon at worldonline.cz> Sep 22, 2001
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> On 21 Sep 2001, at 5:57, sephiroth _ wrote: > > > > > you can write a fairly large file(say 800K), read it back, and time both > > actions, divide by the size of the file in bytes and voila! you've got > > your trasnfer rate plus OS overhead > > Or the error responce time if it's a 360K or 720K floppy. > > > Norton had a great system performance tester, back before Windoze 3.1. It > tested *everything* on a dos box, and showed you where programs loaded, > did memory dumps, who had what interrupts, etc.. > > Kat > > > > C. K. Lester wrote: > > > I want to test the read/write performance of my floppy disk drive on two > > > systems. > > > > > > Can somebody provide some code that will allow me to do this? > > > > > > DOS or Win please... > > > > > > Thanks! > > > ck > > > Or you can try SiSoft Sandra. It has some benchmarks/ system info. You can test disk performance of your disk with or without Windows cache and compare it to other systems. Martin