Want to find out the speed of your hard drive but don’t know how? We explain it to you here.
Want to know how fast your hard drive is? While there are many free programs available for this purpose, you do not need them. Windows 10 provides you with the PowerShell to determine the speed of your hard drive in a snap to install with no additional software for the opportunity. Read through our instructions.
How to test the speed of your hard drive
Follow our step-by-step instructions or take a look at the brief instructions.
- Step 1: Start PowerShell by right-clicking the Windows icon in the lower-left and selecting ” Windows PowerShell (Administrator) “.
- Step 2: To determine the read speed of your hard disk, enter the command winsat disk -seq -read -drive x and press [Enter]. For the letter x, insert the respective letter of the drive under which your hard disk is located.
- Step 3: Wait a moment for the exam to complete. Now, look at the two values in the ” Disk Sequential ” column. The first is the actual speed at which the hard drive reads files. An HDD should achieve a value of 250MB / s here, an SSD a value of 500MB / s. If you don’t know what kind of hard drive you have, read our post about it. The second value is a speed rating scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being very good.
- Step 4: To find out the write speed of your hard drive, enter the command winsat disk -seq -write -drive x, where you replace the x with the drive’s letter. Then press [Enter].
- Step 5: Here, too, you will receive two values after the test. The same applies here as in step 3.
Quick start Guide
- Make a right-click on the Windows icon at the bottom left and then click ” Windows PowerShell (Administrator) “.
- Enter winsat disk -seq -read -drive x and press [Enter] to find the read speed. The x replace with each letter of the drive at which the industry is located.
- You will see two values in the ” Disk Sequential ” column. The first represents the actual speed of your hard drive. HDDs should achieve a value of 250MB / s, SSDs a value of 500MB / s. The second value is a speed rating scale from 1 (very bad) to 10 (very good).
- To determine the write speed, enter winsat disk -seq -write -drive x and press [Enter]. Again, replace the x with the letter of the drive.
- You will get the two values again, for which the same applies as in step 3.
