Flash Memory Toolkit is a small package which has some very useful options like file recovery, benchmark and error scanning.


CrystalDiskMark is described as 'Efficient tool for measuring HDD and SSD performance through sequential and random read/write speed tests, featuring a user-friendly interface' and is a very popular Benchmark tool in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to CrystalDiskMark for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best CrystalDiskMark alternative is AmorphousDiskMark, which is free. Other great apps like CrystalDiskMark are HD Tune, KDiskMark, Cross Platform Disk Test and UserBenchMark.
Flash Memory Toolkit is a small package which has some very useful options like file recovery, benchmark and error scanning.


Compare read and write speed of USB Flash drives: USBDeview is a small utility that lists all USB devices that currently connected to your computer, as well as all USB devices that you previously used.

IsMyHdOK is a small program but effective solution to easily check the Performance of a Windows Volume eg. Partition!

2U load generation appliance, also runs under a VM, A leading commercial performance validation product for networked storage infrastructure. We help companies reduce risk and save millions of dollars by aligning storage deployment decisions to application workload performance...
I want to know how fast are my disks really are, in a real life situations. Not in a synthetic benchmarking program that will display figures that I will never be able to meet.



StableBit Scanner is a state of the art disk health monitoring tool.




Xbench was developed by Spiny Software to provide a comprehensive benchmarking solution for Mac OS X. Xbench is useful not only for comparing the relative speeds of two different Macintoshes, but also for optimizing performance on a single machine.

This program has made to help see how a hard drive is doing. When a customer's machine is running rather slow, seeing the current speed of the drive helps in multiple ways. By seeing the speed of the drive I can tell if something is using the drive heavily or do a simple...

Really easy to use application: just one button 2 go. SpeedOut is an application, created for calculating USB drive (stick or external HDD) read/write speed. It is using low-level technology, which allows you to know REAL drive speed, without slowdowns, caused by File System.

Not used for disk benchmarking