Hard drive benchmark issue

I did a benchmark test on my hard drive with FreshDiagnose and the results were..
Write Speed Average = 18.03MB/s
Read Speed Average = 14.47MB/s

Does this look right I have a 2.4g Pentium4, 512ram and a 80gig 8meg cache Western Digital hard drive. The hard drive is running at UDMA5 and cache enabled. I have defragged, checked for spyware and virus.
Anything else I should check ? Any other good HD benchmark s/w ?

Thanks

 

Hi,

Suggest you get the Lifeguard utilities from WD website and run those.

Matt

 

I tried the WD Data Lifeguard program but it just says it passed, no specifics.

 

That was a quick post this morning before work.

I agree, you should be getting higher read speeds than writes.

No data from Lifeguard? I thought it was more informative than that (haven't used it in a long time). Could try Maxtor's Maxblast or Powermax (I think Maxblast is pretty friendly for non-Maxtor drives, Powermax maybe not).

There is also HDtach and doing the www.PCpitstop.com tests, but PCpitstop may not do read/write tests.

You can find programs above by doing a Google search.

There were a few posts on this forum a while ago (end of last year). Try looking them up with a search. (Let me know if you cannot find them.) I think HDtach is one of the only freebies they mention.

Look into PCmark05, but I had no luck with it.

If you happen to have it, Norton Utilities can do read/write tests, but my old version states that you should backup your data for write tests, soooo I haven't touched that.

Hope something there does the trick.
Matt
EDIT: Get Everest in my signature (I don't have it installed at the moment). Look at the SMART information, I think it has read/write information.