Personal Storage Media Speed BenchMark
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I was working with videos and our family photo library over the weekend (another post coming) and was having some challenges with storage and disk drives
I had a bit of time time tonight, and my hotel had terrible Internet access speed so I decided to take some time and do a quick comparison of speed across several of the media storage I personally use.
First I had to look for a good and easy to read disk speed benchmark product. There are many out there, but the one I chose was CrystalDiskMark Good reviews, easy to use, recently updated and free open source.
Once I had the software, I just need to run the test on the different storage disks I use.
After playing with the tool, I decided to use the following parameters:
- Same Computer for all tests (Dell XPS 13 core i7)
- 50Mg file for the tests
- Number of passes per test: 5
- Run all tests available (4):
- Sequencial Read/Write: 32 queues / 1 thread
- Random 4Kb Read/Write: 8 queues / 8 threads
- Random 4Kb Read/Write: 32 queues / 1 thread
- Random 4Kb Read/Write: 1 queue / 1 thread
I was completely surprise by the delta difference in speed between the different devices.
The SSD drive on the computer benchmarked at 429 MB/s while a 128Gb MicroSD U1 card clocked at 10.5 MB/s — What a difference!
It was a cool test to do…
Details below:
Read Test (in MB/S) | Sequencial Q:32/T:1 |
4Kb Q:8/T:8 |
4Kb Q:32/T:1 |
4Kb Q:1/T:1 |
256GB SSD Drive | 429.7 | 128.6 | 63.3 | 26.1 |
256 USB Stick | 79.0 | 6.2 | 6.1 | 5.7 |
128 USB Stick | 72.8 | 2.8 | 3.2 | 2.4 |
1TB Disk Drive | 62.5 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.5 |
128GB MicroSD Card | 10.5 | 5.7 | 5.4 | 4.9 |
Write Test (in MB/S) | Sequencial Q:32/T:1 |
4Kb Q:8/T:8 |
4Kb Q:32/T:1 |
4Kb Q:1/T:1 |
256GB SSD Drive | 173.8 | 25.1 | 41.6 | 18.9 |
256 USB Stick | 21.0 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.2 |
128 USB Stick | 62.3 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.1 |
1TB Disk Drive | 67.7 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.4 |
128GB MicroSD Card | 5.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Another way of looking at it:
As an FYI the very slow microSD card I tested was a PNY 128Gb U1 XS-I cards