The Best 13 Cold-cache Sequential I/O Benchmark Alternatives

  • UserBenchMark

    Still hankering for the day that you pulled your new PC out of the box, plugged it in and it just worked? UserBenchmark is a free all-in-one benchmarking application.

    Free Windows

  • Blackmagic Disk Speed Test

    Disk Speed Test is an easy to use tool to quickly measure and certify your disk performance for working with high quality video! Simply click the start button and Disk Speed Test will write test your disk using large blocks of data, and...

    Free Mac OS X

  • ATTO Disk Benchmark

    The ATTO Disk Benchmark performance measurement tool is compatible with Microsoft Windows. Measure your storage systems performance with various transfer sizes and test...

    Free Windows

  • AS SSD Benchmark

    With AS SSD Benchmark you can determine your SSD drive's performance by conducting several specific tests. Test the sequential or random read/write performance...

    Free Windows

  • Iometer

    As the Iometer Users Guide says, Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems. It was originally developed by the...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Diskspd

    A feature-rich and versatile storage testing tool, Diskspd (version 2.0.17) combines robust and granular IO workload definition with flexible runtime and output options...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • PassMark DiskCheckup

    PassMark DiskCheckup allows the user to monitor the SMART attributes of a particular hard disk drive. SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a...

    Free Personal Windows

  • fio

    Generate I/O for benchmarking, stress testing, verification or workload reproduction purposes.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • IOzone

    IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations. Iozone is useful for performing a broad filesystem analysis...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • Vdbench

    Vdbench is a disk and tape I/O workload generator for verifying data integrity and measuring performance of direct attached and network connected storage on Windows...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux