Comments on: 5 Apps to Check the Speed of Your USB Flash Drive (Windows)

By: esalkin

esalkin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:45:46 +0000

**** IMPORTANT ******
USB flash drives have a limited lifespan. About 100k writes if I recall. Running any of these programs will take away a little of that life. Running some that are designed for hard disks using “intensive” or “continuous” modes could eat up a chunk.

IMHO use them just ONCE to test speed. Any more and you are wearing the drive out for no reason.

Thanks for the nice list BTW

By: Jiji

Jiji — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:12:47 +0000

Crystal is the best. The rest aren’t worthy of download.

By: 83bj60

83bj60 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:12:19 +0000

Excellent, very informative and practical post

As for your basic assumption that value is more closely related to specifications rather than brand marketing, I strongly disagree! Our whole economy is based on marketing. Cost of manufacture is a TINY fraction of end user final cost.

Time and time again I have seen low priced product perform better than high end products. Of course, it’s all a question of actual specifications and cutting through the marketing crap can be a major challenge, and has been a pet peeve of mine when buying any products: “Where’s the beef?” (= what are the specifications).

Your testing software report should make it easy for those who can actually test and return these USB keys to select the best product (Here in Canada Flash memory products are non returnable).

Thank You!

By: David (of Melodiya Records)

David (of Melodiya Records) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:01:07 +0000

Another great app to check speed of USB drive and even to test it for errors and bad blocks is HDDScan.
Moreover, it’s completely free.

All the best,
Dave

By: roger

roger — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:33:00 +0000

I down loaded HD Speed. Avg said the file had a virus so I deleted it.

By: Phaoloo

Phaoloo — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:04:05 +0000

Useful apps.

By: Fergal

Fergal — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:50:40 +0000

the 2nd on the list HD SPEED was deletet and blocked by my security as being a trojan!

By: avi

avi — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:11:38 +0000

You can also try this one:

http://usbspeed.nirsoft.net

By: bunny

bunny — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:35:55 +0000

Have you tried Flash Drive/Card Tester from http://www.vconsole.com
its free and low on frills but does the job.

It just told me that my supposedly “high-speed” flash writes at 12mb/s and reads at a shade under 18mb/s. Pretty pathetic if you want to boot of it.

By: Saikat

Saikat — Sun, 17 May 2009 07:14:37 +0000

It is reported to be a false positive. But if you have concerns, it’s always safer not to use it.