How is "Benchmark drive" Defined?

[RetiredEngineer]

Hi.

I'm a real newbie to Defraggler, and there is a button next to the "View files ..." selection titled "Benchmark drive." I've tried Google searches on all of Piriform for "Benchmark drive," but nothing shows as listed.

Therefore, before I press this button at the wrong time, I'm left with the following questions: How is "Benchmark drive" defined? When should it be used? What does it do?

I think a few lines of documentation for this function in the Defraggler docs would be helpful to total newbies.

Kind regards,

RetiredEngineer

[DennisD]

Hi RetiredEngineer.

I can't find any mention of this in the Defraggler guide ...

http://www.piriform.com/docs/defraggler

... but it's just a simple performance test I believe of your drives read\write ability, measured against some recognized parameters. I have no idea (although the devs will) the source of the parameters used in this test, but it's relatively quick (in my case it was) and gives you a guide as to it's current performance.

In progress:

Displayed result:

Appears to be a "random read test" only. No writing to the drive.

I would say it's an addition to the "Smart" measurement details displayed for any drive, and if any of the guys can give you a more technical description than that I'm sure they will.

Hope that helps.