[Solved] How to Make Free Hard Drive Benchmark Test

To know the methods to make free hard drive benchmark test, you can refer to this tutorial. Besides, we will provide some solutions for you when the disk is in poor condition.

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By Tina / Updated on May 12, 2023

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How do I test my hard drive speed?

 

" I recently bought a 500gb WD Blue HDD at a garage sale. I have no idea if it works or not, but it appears to be in good condition on the outside. With my PC I just bought, I realized it has the exact same HDD in it. How do I test my hard drive speed? What is the best way to test this hard drive? "

- Question from forums.tomshardware.com

Hard Drive Speed

Why need to perform disk speed test on Windows?

The PC hard drive is the most important storage device on the computer. When the hard drive is not in good condition, it will directly affect the operating efficiency of the computer.

When we get a new hard drive or feel that the PC is slowing down, making free hard drive benchmark test is quite necessary. Because only by testing the condition of the hard disk, can further measures be taken to repair the hard disk, and ensure its secure use.

If you do not check the hard disk health and read/write speed in time, it will lead to low computer efficiency, even blue screens and computer freezes. To use your computer normally for a longer time, please pay attention to the test of your PC hard drive.

Disk Performance Test

How to make free hard drive benchmark test

To help you make disk speed test for Windows, we will share two methods for you to do it. Please refer to the guidance for the operation.

Method 1. Test hard drive with Task Manager

Task Manager is a built-in tool in Windows system, it provides users with information about computer performance, the programs and processes running on the computer. You can use it to test disk speed on Windows 10 & 11.

Step 1. Press "Windows" and input "task manager" in the task bar and click "Open".

Step 2. When you open it, click "Performance". Click the hard drive you want to test in the left list, then you can see the information about it.

Disk Speed Task Manager

Method 2. Perform free hard drive benchmark test with a powerful disk tester

If you want to test not only hard drive speed but also its health, here, you can use an all-around hard drive manager - AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard to make free hard drive benchmark test.

This reliable hard drive tester will perform disk speed test on Windows 10 & 11. It will also provide you with detailed information about the hard drive via the SMART test. When the hard drive test result is bad, you can use it to check and deal with problems like bad sectors and file fragments.

Apart from testing the functions of the hard drive, it also provides you with other free disk managing functions, such as wipe hard drive, format partition, clone disk drive, etc.

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▶ Test hard disk speed

If you want to test the speed of your hard drive, please follow the steps below.

Step 1. Open AOMEI Partition Assistant, click "Test" and "Disk Speed Test" in order.

Disk Speed Test

Step 2. In the new window, choose the target partition and then click "Start".

Start Test

Step 3. The testing result will be display soon, click "Export".

Export

Step 4.  You can also make a deep test about the target drive, just click "Pro Mode".

Pro Mode

Step 5. In the new popped window, you can see more information.

Pro Mode Interface

▶ Make S.M.A.R.T. test

When you feel your PC running slow, you can make S.M.A.R.T. test to check the health condition of the hard drive.

Step 1. In the main interface, right-click on the target drive, then click "Properties" and "Health(SMART)".

Disk Health

Step 2. If you see "Health Status: Good", your hard drive is healthy.

Good Condition

Step 3. If the health status is "Caution", there may be some little problems, but you can use the hard drive normally. 

Causion Condition

Step 4. When the health status is Bad, you need to find out the problems and deal with them.

Bad Condition

Step 5. Click "View details" to know the detailed information.

Health Status

Extended reading: How to improve hard drive performance

To maintain the stability of your PC hard drive, when there're some errors on it, you should fix them at once. Here, you can learn three solutions to improve hard drive performance.

● Solution 1. Remove bad sectors

A bad sector is a location on the hard drive that cannot store data. If there are bad sectors in the hard drive, you may lose data on it. Therefore, you need to remove bad sectors.

Step 1. Right-click the target drive and click "Check Partition".

Check Partition

Step 2. You have three choices to check the target drive, click the "Check partition and fix errors in this partition by using chkdsk.exe" and "OK".

Fix Errors

Step 3. A small window will pop out when the task is finished, click "OK".

Click OK

● Solution 2. Defrag the target disk

Since file fragments are scattered across the hard drive, reading and writing related information takes much time, for the head repeatedly jumps in the hard drive to read these file fragments. When your computer slows down, defragmenting disk is a worth-trying method.

Please turn to the Professional Version, seeing how the "Defrag Disk" function works.

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Step 1. Right-click the drive you want to defrag and then click "Disk Defrag".

Disk Defragment

Step 2. In the "Disk Defrag" window, choose the target drive and click "Analyze". 

Analyze

Step 3. To defrag the target drive regularly, you can click "Schedule".

Click Schedule

Step 4. In the "Schedule Settings" window, choose the target drive and set the special time to defrag it, then click "OK". You can click "Conditions" to set more.

Schedule Settings

Step 5. In the "Conditions" window, set the more options and click "OK".

Degree of Fragmentation

Step 6. Click "Defrag" to start the disk defragment task.

Defrag

● Solution 3. Cleanup your hard drive

The PC will also perform poorly if there’s not enough space. So you can use this easy PC cleaner to clean up junk files and delete some unnecessary large files.

Step 1. Click "Free up" and select "Delete Large Files".

Delete Large Files

Step 2. In the new interface, you will see all partitions on the PC, tick the target one and click "Start Scan".

Start Scan

Step 3. All the large files on the target drive will be found and listed out, the important large files will be marked to red (It is not recommend to delete them). Tick the target large files and click "Delete".

Delete

Step 4. Check the selected large files once again, then click "Delete Now".

Delete Now

Note: If your hard drive is damaged terribly, the "Disk Clone Wizard" function can move the whole hard drive to another, including the Windows OS and related files.

Conclusion

How to perform free hard drive benchmark test? In this post, we have shared 2 methods to do it. In addition, we also share the trick to improve the PC performance.

By the way, if you want to test and manage hard drice on Windows Server PC, you can turn to the Server Edition.

 
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Tina · Staff Editor
Tina is an English editor of AOMEI Technology. She has a positive attitude and full of energy. On her work, she always keeps thinking to figure out the solutions for users' problems, and writes the answers so that can help someone. In her daily life, she likes to sing, watch TV and sleep. She always being grateful and happy to all the things happened and all the people encountered.