What Are Disk Speed Test Apps? Disk speed test apps help measure the overall speed and performance of a hard drive or solid-state drive (SSD) (internal or external) connected to a computer system.

This week's awesome apps include a retro synthesizer, a solid VPN, a quick test for hard drives and a guide to Italian eateries. In this week’s Awesome Apps roundup, we have a synthesizer app that ...

When your NAS slows down, the first thing that comes to mind is drive speed — you assume that the drives aren’t able to keep up anymore. Similarly, when buying new NAS hard drives, it’s tempting to go ...

I want to know how fast my hard drive transfer rates are. Is there a (free) utility to test this and get the results in MegaBytes per second. A arbitrary performance number would be meaningless to ...

What takes 37 hours to format but sips power and moves faster than spit on a hot griddle? The answer is Samsung’s 1TB Spinpoint F1 Series hard drive. Rather than go with the flow and use four or more ...

If you need a lot of storage in about as small an enclosure as you can get, the TerraMaster D8 Hybrid fuses hard drive and SSD storage — but with a crucial speed limitation. It's been a quiet ...