Some kind of methodology is advisable for this case, so here:
- The purpose here is to have some 'quick and dirty' benchmarking results that can help the general public in deciding which hardware has better prospects for carrying and running portable programs;
- Following suit with common practices adhered to elsewhere, I propose a minimum benchmarking toolkit made of:
- CrystalDisk Mark, currently at v3.0.1c, non-stealth [ Writes settings to: %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\CrystalDiskMark30.ini ] http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1616 wrote:CrystalDiskMark is a disk benchmark software that measures performance for sequential reads/writes and random 4KB/512KB reads/writes for any storage device. It does not require the target device to be formatted.
- HD Tune v2.55, last freeware version, non-stealth: [ Writes settings to: Windows registry ] But note what user CD said: [ I was worried that this program writes to the registry (HKLM\HDTune), but you can avoid this by NEVER changing the default options/configurations. You can look at the options, just DO NOT click OK. There are very few options anyways and the default options are fine. ]http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=182 wrote:HD Tune is a hard disk utility that has the following functions: information (partition information, firmware version, serial number etc.), benchmark (transfer rate, access time, burst rate etc.), health (S.M.A.R.T parameters, temperature etc.) and whole disk surface scan.
- CrystalDisk Mark, currently at v3.0.1c, non-stealth [ Writes settings to: %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\CrystalDiskMark30.ini ]
- Run Crystal Disk Mark, select 3 for "Number Test Runs", 1000MB for "Test Size", and your drive letter for "Test Drive"; avoid using your PC while test runs and when it finishes, select the Crystal Disk Mark dialog, press ALT+PrtSc, launch MS Paint, paste, and save image in PNG format; now run HD Tune, choose your drive from the top drop-down control and press the 'Start' button; when all the black fields under it are filled, the test will be finished and you can press the top left 'Blue Floppy' button so save a PNG screenshot and upload to one of the services listed in one the pages below (http://www.min.us/ seems to be the hot newcomer), taking care to note the given URLs somewhere;
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content ... nd-Sharing
http://techozens.com/892/free-image-hos ... gistration - Reply here, copy and paste the name of the automatically created HD Tune screenshot into the post 'Subject' field (minus extension), add the drive's nominal capacity to that, paste the URLs of your uploaded screenshots enclosed in [img] tags into the 'Message body', optionally write any remarks you wish below the screenshots (it would be rather enlightening if you took the time to search usbspeed.nirsoft.net for an equivalent entry and posted the respective link), and submit.