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If your PC has multiple drives \u2013 or even just several USB keys — then you\u2019ve probably already decided exactly how each drive is going to be used. But are you sure that decision is correct? Do you know which drive is the fastest, for instance? If that might make a difference, then\u00a0BenchMe<\/a>\u00a0is a simple and free device benchmarking tool which may be able to help.<\/p>\n The program comes in a very small download (703KB), which unfortunately then requires installation. We\u2019re not quite sure why — it looks like the kind of tool which could very easily be portable — but at least there\u2019s no adware or other dangers to worry about.<\/p>\n On launch BenchMe presents you with an extremely basic interface, which essentially consists of 5 buttons and an (initially blank) report screen. And so, while we\u2019d normally complain about the lack of documentation — there\u2019s no Help file, no Readme.txt, not even any tooltips — in this case you really don\u2019t need any at all.<\/p>\n All you really have to do is click the arrow to the right of the Start button, and choose the device or drive you\u2019d like to benchmark. And that\u2019s it, your work is done — you can now sit back and watch as BenchMe begins its checks.<\/p>\n This simplicity doesn\u2019t mean the program is short on features, though. It\u2019ll start by giving you the model name of your drive, for instance. And then it\u2019ll itemize your drive\u2019s capabilities, so if you need to know whether it supports S.M.A.R.T., Automatic Acoustic Management, Native Command Queuing, Tagged Command Queuing, TRIM and so on, you can find out at a glance.<\/p>\n BenchMe measures some values, too. It\u2019ll tell you the drive\u2019s minimum, maximum and average access time, for example. And you\u2019ll see the number of IOPS (I\/O Operations Per Second) the drive can handle, for both a queue depth of 1 and 32.<\/p>\n Perhaps most usefully, you\u2019ll also get a graph which shows you the linear read speed and how it varies across the surface of the drive, with the minimum and maximum speeds highlighted.<\/p>\n And when it\u2019s all done, you\u2019re able to print the results immediately, or copy them to the clipboard (in various sizes) for further processing elsewhere.<\/p>\n We did have one problem with BenchMe. For some reason it was unable to detect our drive capabilities, and so they were all greyed out on the report screen.<\/p>\n We\u2019re not sure whether that\u2019s a general issue, though, or just something specific to our hardware setup. And even without that feature,\u00a0BenchMe<\/a>\u00a0is a handy benchmarking tool, straightforward and easy to use.<\/p>\n Photo Credit:<\/strong>\u00a0Sarah Cheriton-Jones<\/a>\/Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n If your PC has multiple drives \u2013 or even just several USB keys — then you\u2019ve probably already decided exactly how each drive is going to be used. But are you sure that decision is correct? Do you know which drive is the fastest, for instance? If that might make a difference, then\u00a0BenchMe\u00a0is a simple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/img><\/a>
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