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Test Your Hard Drive Speed With Windows 7′s Device Manager

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Test Your Hard Drive Speed With Windows 7′s Device Manager – You can test your hard drive speed by going to the Device Manager, Expanding the Hard Drive Controllers, select the Port and Click on the Test button.  Make it Faster with (Free – See our Review) DiskMax and Defrag with Auslogics.

How about Roadkil.net’s Disk Speed?   A nice little program if your hard drive test isn’t listed under the device manager.

Also check your computer’s hard drive with CheckDiskGUI.

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Measure your hard drive speed using Winsat

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When tweaking your computer, you can use typical utilities found in one of our most active posts or you can use Winsat.   Winsat will not give you fancy graphs but it will give a Windows rating and a time to complete specific tests.  This can be a way of measuring your drives between tweaks.

At a command prompt run the following tweak as an administrator:

winsat disk -drive c                 (you can substitute c with the drive letter of your choice)

Check out AMD vs Intel Quad Core Standoff 64 bit Windows 7, 8 gb of RAM 500 gb Seagate Hard Drives

Overclock your Nvidia video card   … Link

Upgrading Your Hard Drives Firmware

Want to Benchmark your hard drive with Ubuntu?

Improve your laptop hard drive speed

Improve Hard Drive Performance in Windows 7

What’s a fast computer on a slow network?  Learn the basics of subnetting without using binary!

Take a look at how we optimize our computers…

See our review of Windows 8 and see how you can run 90% of your programs, virtualize other operating systems, use your network and more.

Written by TTC Shelbyville IT Department

Sunday, December 20, 2009 7:53 pm at 7:53 pm

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  1. [...] The most popular post- Ironically this post was originally titled wrong and time prevented me from renaming it – Test Your Hard Drive Speed With Windows 7′s Device Manager [...]


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