HDD/SSD Speed Database

How Fasts Your Hard Drive?

Now with storage media moved from mechanical rotating platters to solid state technology what gains are to be had?

We want to build an extensive HDD/SSD database of drive speeds from the real world not just from manufacturers heads as some drive seem to claim they are higher performance than they actually are! Lets see if our drive stack up to what the manufacturers state.

Get Started...
Download the bench marking tools below to check your drive and post up your results in this thread.

Download: Flash Bench
Directions:
Unzip archive and run "FlashBench.exe".
Once open enter your drive details (Vendor / Product) then tick "send Report" and click "Benchmark C:" (or whatever your drives drive letter is).
Once its all done you should be prompted with a report URL.

Download: Crystal Disk Mark
Directions:
Unzip archive and run either "DiskMark32.exe" or "DiskMark64.exe" depending on your systems architecture.
Once open click "ALL" in the top left corner and once its done use "File > Save" to save the results to a text file.

Example Post
Copy and paste the code below and edit your details and Flash Bench report URL and then Attach your Crystal DiskMark results text file and share your bench marks with us.

My Drive Specs
MAKE: SANDISK
MODEL: Ultra II
CAPACITY: 240Gb
INTERFACE: SATA 3 (6Gb/s)
MANUFACTURER RATED READ: up to 550 MB/s
MANUFACTURER RATED WRITE: up to 500 MB/s

ACTUAL READ: 452 MB/s*
ACTUAL WRITE: 491 MB/s*
(* based on results from Crystal DiskMark)

My Motherboard, CPU & Ram Specs
MAKE: Asus
MODEL: M5a99X Evo
CHIPSET NORTHBRIDGE: AMD 990X
CHIPSET SOUTHBRIDGE: AMD SB950
CPU: AMD FX8150 Bulldozer
CLOCK SPEED: 3.6 Ghz
MEMORY: 12Gb DDR3 1600Mhz
MEM CONFIG: 2x4Gb Kingston 2x2Gb OCZ

FlashBench Results
usbflashspeed.com/249495

Crystal DiskMark Results

Flashbench wouldn't give me the online results?

My Drive Specs
MAKE: SK Hynix
MODEL: SL308
CAPACITY: 129GB
INTERFACE: SATA 3 (6Gb/s)
MANUFACTURER RATED READ: up to 560 MB/s
MANUFACTURER RATED WRITE: up to 460 MB/s

ACTUAL READ: 563 MB/s*
ACTUAL WRITE: 437 MB/s*
(* based on results from Crystal DiskMark)

My Motherboard, CPU & Ram Specs
MAKE: Lenovo
MODEL: ThinkPad T420
CHIPSET NORTHBRIDGE: Ivy Bridge
CHIPSET SOUTHBRIDGE: Intel QM77
CPU: Intel i5 3320m
CLOCK SPEED: 2.6GHz (3.2GHz Turbo)
MEMORY: 4Gb DDR3 800Mhz
MEM CONFIG: 1x4Gb Samsung

Crystal DiskMark Results

My Drive Specs
MAKE: Crucial
MODEL: M4-CT064M$SSD2
CAPACITY: 64GB
INTERFACE: SATA 3 (6Gb/s)
MANUFACTURER RATED READ: up to 415 MB/s
MANUFACTURER RATED WRITE: up to 95 MB/s

ACTUAL READ: 394 MB/s*
ACTUAL WRITE: 112 MB/s*
(* based on results from Crystal DiskMark)


My Drive Specs
MAKE: Crucial
MODEL: CT500MX200SSD1
CAPACITY: 500GB
INTERFACE: SATA 3 (6Gb/s)
MANUFACTURER RATED READ: up to 555 MB/s
MANUFACTURER RATED WRITE: up to 500 MB/s

ACTUAL READ: 317 MB/s*
ACTUAL WRITE: 338 MB/s*
(* based on results from Crystal DiskMark)


My Drive Specs
MAKE: Seagate
MODEL: BarraCuda ST31000528AS
CAPACITY: 1 TB
CACHE: 32MB
INTERFACE: SATA-300 (3Gb/s)
MANUFACTURER RATED READ: up to 300 MB/s
MANUFACTURER RATED WRITE: up to 125 MB/s

ACTUAL READ: 90 MB/s*
ACTUAL WRITE: 0,5 MB/s*
(* based on results from Crystal DiskMark)


My Drive Specs
MAKE: Samsung
MODEL: Spinpoint F1
CAPACITY: 500 GB
CACHE: 16MB
INTERFACE: SATA-300 (3Gb/s)
MANUFACTURER RATED READ: up to 300 MB/s
MANUFACTURER RATED WRITE: up to 175 MB/s

ACTUAL READ: 93 MB/s*
ACTUAL WRITE: 91 MB/s*
(* based on results from Crystal DiskMark)


My Motherboard, CPU & Ram Specs
MAKE: Gigabyte
MODEL: GA-FXA990-D3
CHIPSET NORTHBRIDGE: AMD 990FX(RD990)
CHIPSET SOUTHBRIDGE: AMD SB920/950
CPU: AMD FX-8350 Vishera
CLOCK SPEED: 4.2 Ghz
MEMORY: 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz
MEM CONFIG: 2x4GB A-DATA

FlashBench Results
usbflashspeed.com/249846
usbflashspeed.com/249847
usbflashspeed.com/249848
usbflashspeed.com/249850

Crystal DiskMark Results

My Drive Specs
MAKE: OCZ
MODEL: Trion 150
CAPACITY: 240Gb
INTERFACE: SATA 3 (6Gb/s)
MANUFACTURER RATED READ: up to 550 MB/s
MANUFACTURER RATED WRITE: up to 520 MB/s

ACTUAL READ: 563 MB/s*
ACTUAL WRITE: 531 MB/s*
(* based on results from Crystal DiskMark)

My Motherboard, CPU & Ram Specs
MAKE: Dell
MODEL: OptiPlex 3040
CHIPSET NORTHBRIDGE: Intel H110
CHIPSET SOUTHBRIDGE: Intel
CPU: Intel i7 6700
CLOCK SPEED: 3.4 GHz (4.0GHz Turbo)
MEMORY: 16Gb DDR3 1600Mhz
MEM CONFIG: 2x8Gb Crucial DDR3-L

FlashBench Results
FlashBench Result

Crystal DiskMark Results

My Drive Specs
MAKE: OCZ
MODEL: Agility3
CAPACITY: 60GB
INTERFACE: SATA 3 (6Gb/s) Capable - Machine running SATA 2 (3GB/s)
MANUFACTURER RATED READ: up to 525 MB/s
MANUFACTURER RATED WRITE: up to 500 MB/s

ACTUAL READ: 189 MB/s*
ACTUAL WRITE: 64 MB/s*
(* based on results from Crystal DiskMark)

My Motherboard, CPU & Ram Specs
MAKE: HP
MODEL: 8000 Elite
CHIPSET NORTHBRIDGE: Intel Q45/Q43
CHIPSET SOUTHBRIDGE: Intel
CPU: Intel Core2Duo E8500
CLOCK SPEED: 3.16 Ghz
MEMORY: 4Gb DDR3 533Mhz
MEM CONFIG: 1x4Gb

FlashBench Results
usbflashspeed.com/252478

Crystal DiskMark Results

My Drive Specs
MAKE: Liteon
MODEL: CV3 - 8d128-11 SATA
CAPACITY: 128GB
INTERFACE: M.2
MANUFACTURER RATED READ: up to UNKNOWN
MANUFACTURER RATED WRITE: up to UNKNOWN

ACTUAL READ: 553MB/s*
ACTUAL WRITE: 528 MB/s*
(* based on results from Crystal DiskMark)

My Motherboard, CPU & Ram Specs
MAKE: DELL
MODEL: Latitude 3180
CHIPSET NORTHBRIDGE: Intel Apollo Lake
CHIPSET SOUTHBRIDGE: Intel
CPU: Intel Pentium Quad Core N4200
CLOCK SPEED: 1.1GHz (UPTO 2.5GHz Turbo Boost)
MEMORY: 4GB DDR3 1600Mhz
MEM CONFIG: Soldered directly to motherboard

FlashBench Results
usbflashspeed.com/253767

Crystal DiskMark Results

Thought id give the new drive in my newly rebuilt HTPC for my home cinema a bench!
impressive read, not the fastest for write (not that it does much writing anyway!)

My Drive Specs
MAKE: Plextor
MODEL: S3C (Firmware v1.04 - latest at the current time)
CAPACITY: 128Gb
INTERFACE: SATA 3 (6Gb/s)
MANUFACTURER RATED READ: up to 550 MB/s
MANUFACTURER RATED WRITE: up to 520 MB/s

ACTUAL READ: 559 MB/s*
ACTUAL WRITE: 372 MB/s*
(* based on results from Crystal DiskMark)

My Motherboard, CPU & Ram Specs
MAKE: Biostar
MODEL: H81MHV3
CHIPSET NORTHBRIDGE: Intel Haswell
CHIPSET SOUTHBRIDGE: Intel H81
CPU: Intel i5-4590s
CLOCK SPEED: 3.0 Ghz
MEMORY: 8Gb DDR3 1600Mhz
MEM CONFIG: 2x4Gb DUAL CHANNEL by G.Skill

Crystal DiskMark Results