How To Check The Reading And Writing Speed Of Your USB Flash Drives

Do you know that you can check you Flash Drive performance by knowing its reading and writing speed. Here are 2 applications with which you can perform this operation.

1) CrystalDiskMark : CrystalDiskMark is a disk benchmark software that is used to check the speed of Flash Drives.

Here are some quick features about this tool :

a) Sequential reads/writes
b) Random 4KB/512KB reads/writes
c) Text copy
d) Change dialog design
e) Internationalization (i18n)

ReadyBoost Performance Requirements :

Minimum performance requirements :

a) Random 4KB reads 2.5MB/s
b) Random 512KB writes 1.75MB/s

Higher performance requirements

a) Random 4KB reads 5MB/s
b) Random 512KB writes 3MB/s

Download Instructions : Click here to visit the download link from the official website.

2) HD Tune Pro : HD Tune Pro is a tool, which includes many new features such as: write benchmark, secure erasing, AAM setting, folder usage view, disk monitor, command line parameters and file benchmark.



System Requirements :

Supported operating systems: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, Windows Vista.

Download Instructions : Unfortunately this product is not free but you can download 15 days trial from here.

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