So I have this 4GB USB thumb drive by Sony which I bought for who knows how much. I wanted to find out what its read and write speed are since I will probably be using it if I manage to fit the Vista or Windows 7 installer in it. I searched around the web and from most of the forums that I’ve seen, they’ve always recommended HD Tune as the weapon of choice in finding out your USB drive’s read and write speed. However the free version and HD Tune only allows you to do check out the read performance of your USB drive. You need to dish out some cash if you want to do both read and write tests.
So I continued searching and eventually I landed on this hiyohiyo’s website called Crystal Dew World. It’s in Japanese but he has an English version of his website. And it looks like I found out what I need…for free!
hiyohiyo is the author of CrystalDiskMark a disk benchmark software that tests the sequential read and write performance of your disk. It can also do random 512KB and 4KB read and write tests on your disk if you want it too.
What I like about hiyohiyo’s app is that all you need to do is download the app, unzip it and then run it, no need to install it like HD Tune and again it’s free. I need to stress that one out since people will probably just download a cracked version of HD Tune just to be able to use the write speed performance test. Why use a cracked version when you can get another application for free!
Anyway, here’s the results of my test. I have no idea if it’s bad or good but at least I see a 20MB/sec on its READ and that’s good enough for me.
Tags: Crystal Dew World, HD, READ, USB
