software to measure transfer speeds?

icysniper

icysniper

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hey, looking for software to show the transfer rates between my external hdd and my usb sticks. Is there anything that could do this?? thanks :)
 
SiriusB said:
If your HDD is attached by USB, then you can safely assume the max transfer rate is the practical maximum for USB 2.0 [assuming both devices are USB 2.0 and connected via USB 2.0 hubs].
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Not really. USB 2.0 is rated at 480 Mbit/s = 60 MB/s, and the fastest I have seen b/n an internal SATA and an external USB 2.0 hard disk is about 35 MB/s (reading from the external and writing to the internal disk). USB sticks are usually much slower, especially when writing, which as a rule, is under 10 MB/s.
 
with my external hdd i get around 12 MB/s, my 2GB usb i get 3 MB/s and with my other 512mb usb i get 5 MB/s :) using Total commander :)
 
betaspin said:
Not really. USB 2.0 is rated at 480 Mbit/s = 60 MB/s, and the fastest I have seen b/n an internal SATA and an external USB 2.0 hard disk is about 35 MB/s (reading from the external and writing to the internal disk). USB sticks are usually much slower, especially when writing, which as a rule, is under 10 MB/s.
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I said max transfer rate, not actual :p
 
SiriusB said:
I said max transfer rate, not actual :p
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Fair enough, I was providing information about what the practically attainable transfer speeds are likely to be. By the way, for traditional hard disks these do depend on the degree of fragmentation of the hard disk, and on the amount of information present on the hard disk, reading/writing in the first 20% of the disk can be twice faster than in the last 20%. Although USB sticks should behave as SSDs and show next to no variation, for most writing slows down when the USB stick is almost full.
 
using HDtune i get:

FUJITSU 40GB internal HDD:
read: average: 22MB/s :(
Access time: 20ms :-O
Burst Rate: 53MB/s :D

MAXTOR BASICS 500GB external HDD:
read: average 24MB/s
Access time: 13ms
Burst rate: 19.5MB/s

I need a new computer badly :)
 
computer is fine, just bad hard drive slowing it down imo :)

usb2 is always around 20-30ish read speeds
 
lol the specs in my sig are rubbish lol, might shuff in an SSD :D

EDIT: now that i've installed HDtune i keep getting a pop up saying Hard drive temperature critical, it says 57 degrees, is that bad????????????????
 
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icysniper said:
EDIT: now that i've installed HDtune i keep getting a pop up saying Hard drive temperature critical, it says 57 degrees, is that bad????????????????
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If you have been thrashing the hard disk with various benchmarks, you can expect it to get hotter. Older hard disks also tend to run hotter. However, imho 57 deg is a bit beyond reasonable even in such circumstances. Can you move the hard disk to another bay with some more clearance around it?
 
betaspin said:
If you have been thrashing the hard disk with various benchmarks, you can expect it to get hotter. Older hard disks also tend to run hotter. However, imho 57 deg is a bit beyond reasonable even in such circumstances. Can you move the hard disk to another bay with some more clearance around it?
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btw its a laptop :) and the screen doesn't work and neither does the keyboard so atm i have an external monitor and keyboard :D
 
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