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I remembered a tool used by one of the magazines I read called H2bench. This tool should produce reliable results. Though the tool’s homepage is only available in German the tool itself is also translated into English. It is a CLI only tool, but its usage is pretty straightforward. The following command will benchmark hard disk number 0, display its results in English, and write a report in the file ‘report.txt’:

H2bench –english – a 0 –w report.txt

Make sure that you start the tool with administrator privileges, because H2bench accesses the hard disk directly and needs to be run elevated. For this reason it also only measures the read performance. If you want to test the write performance make sure there aren’t any partitions on the drive and use the option ‘-!’.

Tips: right click the H2bench folder and press and hold Shift key while clicking “Open Command Window Here” to enable admin privileges.