5 tools to Check The Speed Of Your USB Flash Drive

[O'Brian]

I just bought a USB Flash drive, and i wanted to check its speed. So is there any software on internet to do so ? If yes, please let me know some of them.

[Kraker999]

Yes, there are some applications to check the speed of your USB Flash drive. Please not some of them:-

1. Crystal Disk Mark:-

CrystalDiskMark is a disk benchmark software.Crystal Disk Mark tool can double up as a USB flash drive speed tester. The screen gives readouts according to the type of tests performed.Crystal Disk Mark can carry out sequential read/write tests (i.e. read/write data in order) or random 4KB/512KB reads/writes or text copy. The speed test results are displayed as large numerical in MB/s.The 396KB software runs as a standalone executable straight from the box and is compatible with Windows Vista/2003/XP.

You can get Crystal Disk Mark from here

System Requirements:-

OS x86 : Vista/2003/XP/2000/NT4/Me/98
x64 : Vista/2003/XP
IE 6.0 ~


2. Check Flash:-

The Check Flash website is in Cyrillic (there is an English option too) but it shouldn’t stop anyone from downloading this light and free USB flash drive speed testing and error checking software.

With Check Flash you can test, manage and format your USB flash drive. You can also run a read-write cycle on your USB flash drive, which returns not only the speed but also any errors (read/write or physical) in your USB drive. The software does not rectify the problem but merely reports it.

Check Flash v1.07 runs as an 812KB sized executable and does not require an installation.

Get Check Flash from here.

[Orlando]

There is one more tool to check your speed of USB flash drive:-

1. Flash Memory Toolkit:

Flash Memory Toolkit is advertised as a collection of utilities for flash memory devices. The toolkit includes options to get detailed device information, erase files and recover files lost after a format, hardware failure or an accidental deletion. Backup and restore functions along with our benchmarking task of measuring the read/write performance of the flash drive is available.

Unfortunately, the free standard version gives us only the ability to judge the Read speeds. To calculate both read/write speeds one has to upgrade to the Pro version. Even with this handicap, the ability to measure read speeds along with the File Benchmark feature (which calculates the time it will take to read or write files of various sizes to the device and returns the results as comparative graphs) is a nice help too.The 766KB software (v1.20) is installable on Windows 2000, XP, XP 64-bit, 2003 Server and Vista.

You should download it today to solve your problem.

Features of Flash Memory Toolkit:-

• It shows detailed information of USB
  
• It scans for errors
  
• Wipe entire flas memory
  
• Creats backup
  
• Recovers files
  
• Measure perfomance

[aalbaiz]

Well, Thats cool softwares. I can test my USb's speed and errors easily.

These softwares really helped me out. Thank you guys for sharing. Is there any more tolls for the same ?

[Michael Sabin]

yes there are some more applications for the same, like :-

1. HD Speed:-

It runs in Windows, WinNT4, Win2000, WinXP, Win2003,WinVista. with three languages i.e. English, Spanish, French. HD_Speed is a pint sized software that can be used to gauge the speed of data transfer on your hard disks, CD/DVD ROMS and USB flash drives. This program is compatible with Windows 2000, XP and Vista only, though it supports both FAT and NTFS volumes.

The 80KB utility does not require installation and runs with a click. Select the drive and hit start. The read/write results show up as a graph and also as real values.It measures both sustained and burst data transfer rates of your hard disks, cd/dvd-roms, flash cards/sticks, floppys, etc. with Realtime graphical display.

Download HD Speed.


2. HD Tune:-

HD Tune Pro is an extended version of HD Tune which includes many new features such as: write benchmark, secure erasing, AAM setting, folder usage view, disk monitor, command line parameters and file benchmark. HD Tune also comes in the free and paid flavors. And again, the free version allows for only read speed testing of our USB Flash drives. It also gives a detailed disk information option along with an error scan.

For more advanced aspects one need to dole out for the pro version. If you disregard the missing features in the free version, it is a handy utility to have around because it gives us a lot of benchmarking information like the maximum, minimum and the average transfer rates (i.e. the read speed) along with access time, burst rate (defined as the highest speed at which data can be transferred from the drive to the OS).HD Tune v2.55 is available for Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server and Windows Vista.

USB 2.0 has a cutting edge data rate of 480Mbps, and it is rated 40 times faster than the now archaic, USB 1.1, which peaked at 12Mbps. Flash drives are catching up with most now hovering around the 30-40 MB/s mark.

Download it from here.