Tests how your drive(s) and controller(s) compare to other devices in a typical system.
Program tests random access of your drive in ms and read burst rate in MB/s.
For hard drive parameters measuring simple push Benchmark selected drive button.
Test needs up to 10MB or more free space on the hard-drive tested.
CPU utilisation during the test is high. Modern ATA and SCSI disk controllers use DMA bus-mastering which frees the CPU from transferring data from/to the disk and increase system peformance. Such systems typically use maximum 10% of CPU time while other systems use 90-99% of CPU time during transfers.
