DiskTester Manual
Choose a volume, then an operation (DiskTester)
DiskTester™ offers the following commands:
- recondition — recondition a solid state drive (SSD);
- fill-volume — fill a volume and characterized drive performance and/or force bad blocks out;
- run-streams — Test throughput with multiple simultaneous streams of data, both writing and reading;
- run-area-test — test sequential speed across a volume;
- run-sequential-suite — test sequential speed for a range of transfer sizes;
- run-sequential — test sequential speed for a single transfer size;
- test-reliability — test the reliability of a volume;
- create-files — create one or more files of a specified size read-files read specified folders(s) or volume(s) as fast as possible
- read-files — read files to test speed and/or verify that a volume (eg DVD or CD) can be read;
- show-info — show technical information about a volume.
GUI vs command line
Nearly all commands are available in the DiskTester application and are “one click” operations designed to provide useful results with no fuss. For precise control over each command, the command line can be used.
Graphing results
DiskTester does not draw graphs— output is in text form.
However, various spreadsheets are supplied into which you can paste results for an instant graph for commands for which graphing is appropriate, such as fill-volume, run-area-test, run-sequential-suite.
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