Software to measure read/write speeds on an m2 drive

DD_Crash · 5 May 2025 at 12:21

Hi, can anyone recommend a free speed tester for my m2 drives? I will be building a new rig soon and would like to know if the read/write speeds would be faster with the latest drives.

hornetstinger · 5 May 2025 at 12:22

crystaldiscinfo

DD_Crash · 5 May 2025 at 12:35

Thanks, I will try that

randal · 5 May 2025 at 12:46

CrystalDiskMark

DD_Crash · 5 May 2025 at 13:06

I now have both, thanks a lot.

tamzzy · 5 May 2025 at 13:09

DD_Crash said:
I will be building a new rig soon and would like to know if the read/write speeds would be faster with the latest drives.

outright speeds in benchmarks should/will be faster, however this does not always translate to "real life" increased smoothness/snapiness as the predominant transfer in RL use is random read/writes - these have not increased significantly even going from SATA -> PCIE5 drives
However if you're doing a lot of single large-file transfers, then you'll see a nice performance increase

DD_Crash · 5 May 2025 at 13:18

It will be for DCS flight sim which has some very large maps, so the loading times are important