cherd84 Posted July 11, 2016 Posted July 11, 2016 Hi all, Can anybody recommend me a decent, preferably free, disk drive benchmarking tool? Got a SSD that's rather sluggish on arrival.
protocol Posted July 11, 2016 Posted July 11, 2016 Some manufacturers have their own like Seagate. There's HDTune and CrystalDiskMark too.
PotNoodleTech Posted July 11, 2016 Posted July 11, 2016 CrystalDiskMark is a good easy to use free one that will let you know of any unusual readings/speed problems.
Arthur Posted July 11, 2016 Posted July 11, 2016 Got a SSD that's rather sluggish on arrival. Is the SSD brand new? Have you updated the firmware (if available)? Is it a Kingston (V300) or Samsung (840 EVO) SSD? If the drive has already been used when you got it you could secure erase it.
cherd84 Posted July 11, 2016 Author Posted July 11, 2016 (edited) Thanks guys, I'll check these out. Is the SSD brand new? Have you updated the firmware (if available)? Is it a Kingston (V300) or Samsung (840 EVO) SSD? If the drive has already been used when you got it you could secure erase it. It's an Origin drive in a refurbed laptop. Will have a look at secure erasing it but trying an alternate spare SSD too but still pretty slow. Wondering if it's a controller issue. *Edit - no firmware update available for the drive. Edited July 11, 2016 by cherd84
PotNoodleTech Posted July 11, 2016 Posted July 11, 2016 It could be that the drive has already been heavily erased. With an SSD the more you secure erase it the slower it would get.
Arthur Posted July 11, 2016 Posted July 11, 2016 With an SSD the more you secure erase it the slower it would get. Not if you do it properly. www.pcworld.com/article/2088341/how-to-restore-your-ssd-to-peak-performance.html Secure erase, a function built into every ATA-based drive (hard drives and SSDs) since 2001, erases everything on a drive and marks the cells as empty, restoring any modern SSD to factory-fresh default performance. www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/SSD_Secure_Erase According to the ATA specification, a secure erase should guarantee the secure erasure of all stored data on a storage medium. Most SSDs support secure erase, executing it for the physical deletion of all blocks on the SSD. The SSD will then be usable at its original ideal performance level, since all pages can be written directly
PotNoodleTech Posted July 11, 2016 Posted July 11, 2016 Yeh it depends if they used the built in erase, or more likely use third party separate "erasure software" which actually overwrites the blocks repeatedly.
Arthur Posted July 11, 2016 Posted July 11, 2016 use third party separate "erasure software" which actually overwrites the blocks repeatedly. Yeah. That would be completely pointless.
cherd84 Posted July 11, 2016 Author Posted July 11, 2016 (edited) Update - felt the unit was getting rather toasty so ran open hardware monitor. CPU was getting throttled down to 800 MHz and running at 60°C+. Disabled throttling in BIOS and opened hardware monitor again but otherwise running idle. Frequency reached it's max but temperature exceeded 70°C pretty quickly. It's under warranty so put a ticket in. Edited July 11, 2016 by cherd84 typo
PotNoodleTech Posted July 11, 2016 Posted July 11, 2016 Sounds like CPU fan fail. Re enable the throttling or it will overheat causing actual damage. 1
cherd84 Posted July 11, 2016 Author Posted July 11, 2016 Sounds like CPU fan fail. Re enable the throttling or it will overheat causing actual damage. Yeah, I have done. Powered off straight after that test and logged it with the supplier. 1
NviGate_Systems Posted July 12, 2016 Posted July 12, 2016 Hard Disk Sentinel works good with SSD's and will tell you how many blocks are replaced.
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