Hello,
I am using an HP Pavilion laptop from 2008 and I have a 1TB external HD in an HD enclosure connected via an eSATA cable which plugs into a combo USB/eSATA port.
I ran ReadSpeed for Windows, it created the bootable USB for ReadSpeed v1.0 and booted up okay. The eSATA drive was powered on, already spun up and plugged into the USB/eSATA port prior to booting the ReadSpeed USB drive.
When ReadSpeed is initializing, there is a white bar at the top, then I can hear my eSATA drive make the usual sounds and click as though it's just spinning up again, then I get this timeout error message in my ReadSpeed log:
However, if I exit ReadSpeed, unplug my eSATA drive, then run ReadSpeed again and at the same time plug my eSATA drive in as ReadSpeed is initializing, it recognizes the drive no problem and can benchmark it:
I just thought I would bring this to your attention. Otherwise, ReadSpeed seems to give fairly consistent speed benchmark scores for these two drives over the few times I tested it.
Also, I was wondering, can I also benchmark my external hard drives connected via USB only?
Thanks!
Best regards,
Shawn
I am using an HP Pavilion laptop from 2008 and I have a 1TB external HD in an HD enclosure connected via an eSATA cable which plugs into a combo USB/eSATA port.
I ran ReadSpeed for Windows, it created the bootable USB for ReadSpeed v1.0 and booted up okay. The eSATA drive was powered on, already spun up and plugged into the USB/eSATA port prior to booting the ReadSpeed USB drive.
When ReadSpeed is initializing, there is a white bar at the top, then I can hear my eSATA drive make the usual sounds and click as though it's just spinning up again, then I get this timeout error message in my ReadSpeed log:
Code:
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| ReadSpeed: Hyper-accurate mass storage read-performance benchmark. rel 1 |
| Benchmarked values are in megabytes read per second at five locations. |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Timeout waiting for drive to become ready: 0:31:2 Stat:00000080
Driv Size Drive Identity Location: 0 25% 50% 75% 100
---- ----- ---------------------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
81 320GB FUJITSU MHZ2320BH G2 56.9 53.0 47.9 40.1 28.2
82 0BY
Benchmarked: Tuesday, 2020-12-29 at 05:10
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
See the ReadSpeed forums at forums.grc.com for help and community support.
However, if I exit ReadSpeed, unplug my eSATA drive, then run ReadSpeed again and at the same time plug my eSATA drive in as ReadSpeed is initializing, it recognizes the drive no problem and can benchmark it:
Code:
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| ReadSpeed: Hyper-accurate mass storage read-performance benchmark. rel 1 |
| Benchmarked values are in megabytes read per second at five locations. |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Driv Size Drive Identity Location: 0 25% 50% 75% 100
---- ----- ---------------------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
81 320GB FUJITSU MHZ2320BH G2 56.9 53.0 47.9 40.1 28.2
82 1.0TB ST31000340AS 107.1 101.2 89.2 70.6 50.4
Benchmarked: Tuesday, 2020-12-29 at 04:38
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
See the ReadSpeed forums at forums.grc.com for help and community support.
I just thought I would bring this to your attention. Otherwise, ReadSpeed seems to give fairly consistent speed benchmark scores for these two drives over the few times I tested it.
Also, I was wondering, can I also benchmark my external hard drives connected via USB only?
Thanks!
Best regards,
Shawn
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