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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