I just want to say you did a great job of the breakdowns, it gave me a lot of info, I also like that you broke up the video and let people know they can quit watching if that's all they are looking for, great video man!
I rolled my eyes at the little faces. and then now I'm laughing my butt off. I've seen your videos pop up a lot so it's time I subscribe. Very informative and to the point videos!
Measure time is how long should it be measured for. I like 30 seconds for a more realistic load. Interval time is the time between tests. I like to do 60 seconds because it gives the drive and OS some time to settle before going into the next test.
Liked for the whimsical faces :D Honestly, thanks for the guide! I just picked up a gen 4 nvme upgrade for my Galaxy Flex2 Alpha over the gen 3 currently installed. Just waiting on backups now :D Interesting to see what kind of performance I'll pick up.
Update on the upgrade: nearly every type of test shows consistent improvements being close to or at advertised read/write speeds. I've noticed things are a lot more snappy, and I've also noticed that GTA 5 w/mods can play happily without the occasional stuttering as before. I went from a Western Digital PCIe 3 512GB NVMe up to a PCIe 4 Samsung 980 Pro.
Excellent video dude. Wonderfully described. If you would like to expand on it you could talk about real world use representation of numbers, and if that's possible. Cheers
I think you need to create part 2 of this video to explain where these theorical concepts are put into perspective with real world usage like Operating system operation, gaming, winrar, etc.
I appreciate the time and effort that you put into this to VERY detailed tutorial! Definitely good insight and information that I always wanted to know, but never really got around to looking up, but this vid gives me it all! #MorePOOOOOOOOOOWERRRR 😈
Great vid with Great presentation. Thanks for the time & effort put into this. I totally agree with most of the comments here as I've used this b4 but been too lazy to go into any depth of understanding the results. Now I do understand so much better I will check my drives again. Ray D.
I'm trying to determine if my system drive is nvme or not. The laptop is old and was given to me by a friend and he doesn't remember. I ran CDM twice, once with nvme SSD selected and once without. Results were pretty much the same, about 2 mb/s faster on the Default setting.
I was going to say that this video is very helpful, but the one thing it's missing is the method to get cool manga girl images on it...but you even showed that in the video! (By the way, you said that you're learning as well and asked for any constructive input, so I'll just say that GB is "gigabyte", but GiB is "gibibyte", which is binary-based and is a little bit larger than a gigabyte.) Thanks again for the info!
Something to know that you won't hear any Affiliated videos is that the results also depends on your system. Some systems will be different so don't expect to get the same numbers you see in the videos.
Im very new to this so I understand very little. I used this benchmark on the family desktop and row 1 was 161mb and row 2 was 183mb. I thought that row 1 is the theorietical best and the second row is what it will reasonably do. Its worth noting the desktop uses a hdd
I'm guessing measure time is how often the performance is measured. I see it as, you have a sensor on a water pipe and you measure the pressure of the water every "measure time" seconds if that makes sense. But I could be wrong. @TravisNewton1 had a different idea.
Hey, great video - thanks for making it! Question - I have been having trouble downloading games from Steam lately. I keep getting a "download paused, disk write error" message. I downloaded this software and ran the test, and the bottom 2 in the write column came back with zeros. I have a Sandisk Ultra II SSD. I'm thinking this indicates a problem with my disk. What do you think?
@@TechIlliterate Hey, thank you for the response! It is not my primary drive - it is a drive I added for extra storage for games, music, etc. My OS is on a different drive. I guess my real question is - if those tests come back with zeroes in the bottom right two columns (my settings were at 5/32gb, if that makes sense to you), does that indicate that I likely have a problem? In any case, you have my sub. Thank you for making videos like this, and for being responsive!
@@Rsivordog It seems like there is a problem but that doesn't necessarily mean the drive is broken. Could be any number of things. Personally I would start with CHCKDSK in the command prompt, re-plug the SATA cable and check for malware. Thanks!
Thank you very much for this video. But I don't understand why there is not a software wicho could just translate those numbers to say to the user : "ok your hard drive is fine or not".
I have a few question, does the space of storage affect the test result ? If I choose another storage partition with more space of storage than the other, is it gonna represent the result of my storage device or it just represent the result of that partition ? Anyway, great video !
amazing vid, i have just brought a new WD SN550 500GB SSD and crystaldiskmark 8's SEQ1M Q8T1's result for my SSD is around 1600 MB/s which is very low compared to 2400 MB/s as advertised by Western Digital, should I return my drive and replace with another one or this normal?
Hi there nice video, just one thing if the numbers are low could it be something other than the hdd/sdd like the cpu or ram chips for instance...they all have to work together....F in Uk
1 GiB is one GIBIBYTE. Similarly a KiB is a Kibibyte and MiB is a Mebibyte. This usage is a more accurate description of the number of bytes, or at least a not-inaccurate one. We think of a kilobyte as being 1024 bytes, but actually that doesn't really make sense since kilo means 1000. The more you know 🌠🌈
Thanks Steve! It’s exact and let’s also talk about Windows showing « GB » for drives free space when it’s actually Gibibytes by looking in disk’s properties.
I thought this was explained pretty po orly. A “Ki *lo* byte” is equal to 1000 bytes, but a “Ki *bi* byte” is equal to 1024 bytes. The same thing occurs with bigger numbers, the “bi” will always mean 1024* of the previous size, while the metric version obviously means 1000. To address the comment below; windows will show storage size in mebibytes, but will incorrectly label it as megabytes. So if you see your 1TB drive saying it’s only 931GB, that’s normal, and just means windows is stupid, because it for got the “i” in “GiB”. But I’m not sure why they calculate it in GiB anyways.
Any test will shorten the life of a solid state drive but it is so miniscule in the grand scheme that it isn't worth worrying about. By the time the thing dies you should have upgraded to some new faster tech many years before.
Can I test a new drive through a USB 3.0 enclosure (like a laptop) and still get accurate readings, or does the new drive need to be hooked up inside (in a desktop)?
I went to the site and all I see to download is Retro. I downloaded what I thought was for Win 11, but when I run the app, I don't get the same interface that you show on your site. Also, I tried to remove it from my system, but it will not remove. I tried Revo uninstaller, but it didn't show up. I tried the usual Win 11 delete, but It just kept spinning. Furthermore, I tried File Shredder, but that did not work. What to do?
hey is it weird that my SSD puts out higher numbers on real world performance over peak? Also its a Sata SSD (Crucial MX500) rated to 500 MB/s but the benchmark says 7019.41 MB/s read
I just want to say you did a great job of the breakdowns, it gave me a lot of info, I also like that you broke up the video and let people know they can quit watching if that's all they are looking for, great video man!
Excellent tutorial. Wish all tutorials on YT were this useful and clear at the same time.
Thank you for putting this together in plain language. Appreciate all the effort you put into making this video.
Great video! You spent time and effort to make the info clear and easy to understand, that's appreciated. Well done!
I was really confused by the Crystal Disk Info... didn't realize it was a completely different (simpler) program. lol
Very helpful !
i went for the shizaku edition, great edition
Great video, straight to the point, with a little nugget of explanation boiled down to the essentials!
Thanks!
this is hands down the funniest tech breakdown video i've seen, thank you
Dude, just because you shared the analogy of how threads, etc work. Got a Sub and Like. Thank you man.
I rolled my eyes at the little faces. and then now I'm laughing my butt off. I've seen your videos pop up a lot so it's time I subscribe. Very informative and to the point videos!
Thank you friend. You explained every bit of it perfectly. Exactly what I was looking for.
Yeah! Another cultured man using the cultured version of Cystal Disk
the developer is pretty based
A solid breakdown of CrystalDiskMark 👍
yeah, great videos buddy..
greetings from Philippines.. great review.
I didn't know that Jonny Sins has a Tech page, dude is everywhere!
Measure time is how long should it be measured for. I like 30 seconds for a more realistic load. Interval time is the time between tests. I like to do 60 seconds because it gives the drive and OS some time to settle before going into the next test.
really enjoy listening to you explaining!
… aaaand now I can’t unsee the faces.
Great video btw. 👍🏼
Liked for the whimsical faces :D
Honestly, thanks for the guide! I just picked up a gen 4 nvme upgrade for my Galaxy Flex2 Alpha over the gen 3 currently installed. Just waiting on backups now :D Interesting to see what kind of performance I'll pick up.
Update on the upgrade: nearly every type of test shows consistent improvements being close to or at advertised read/write speeds. I've noticed things are a lot more snappy, and I've also noticed that GTA 5 w/mods can play happily without the occasional stuttering as before. I went from a Western Digital PCIe 3 512GB NVMe up to a PCIe 4 Samsung 980 Pro.
Thank you so much Nick. English is not my first language but you made this very easy to understand.
Excellent video dude. Wonderfully described. If you would like to expand on it you could talk about real world use representation of numbers, and if that's possible.
Cheers
Excellent explanation, i understood many things about the software that weren't clear to me.
I think you need to create part 2 of this video to explain where these theorical concepts are put into perspective with real world usage like Operating system operation, gaming, winrar, etc.
I appreciate the time and effort that you put into this to VERY detailed tutorial! Definitely good insight and information that I always wanted to know, but never really got around to looking up, but this vid gives me it all! #MorePOOOOOOOOOOWERRRR 😈
Thank you so much for this explanation, greatly helped me. 5/5
Great vid with Great presentation. Thanks for the time & effort put into this. I totally agree with most of the comments here as I've used this b4 but been too lazy to go into any depth of understanding the results. Now I do understand so much better I will check my drives again. Ray D.
Dude this video is amazing, you're awesome thanks buddy!
Excellent tutorial, many thanks.
1:30 you fucked me up with this one. Windows will never be the same ever again.
Thanks for the detailed explanation...I have the same 500GB NVMe M.2 SN750 SSD and I'm getting 3425 MB/s read speed and 2714 write (peak SEQ1M).
Another man of culture.
my computer has read speed of 95 MB/s
I have 507 read and 442 write
I'm trying to determine if my system drive is nvme or not. The laptop is old and was given to me by a friend and he doesn't remember.
I ran CDM twice, once with nvme SSD selected and once without. Results were pretty much the same, about 2 mb/s faster on the Default setting.
This was a lot of helpful, Thank You
How to unsee the faces now? Great vid mate!
I hoped for more detailed explanation of technical details, like queues and threads.
man of culture
These how to Tutotia is amazing, as there is a dearth of such educatioin content on YT
nice explanation saitama! POWER!
1:30 I'll never unsee the faces now. . .
best explaination ive heard yet! and funny too xD
Okay the whimsical little faces made me laugh 😂
Thanks man this helped a lot!
I like your sound looks like solid,btw nice setup 👍
😅
Thanks for explaining. Thumbs up
10:20 don't forget the most important thing
thank you so my new friend,look forward to more videos.
Nice tutorial, thanks!
Thank you for the explanation video Pinkman
Subbed, Great Tutorial Bro.
I was going to say that this video is very helpful, but the one thing it's missing is the method to get cool manga girl images on it...but you even showed that in the video! (By the way, you said that you're learning as well and asked for any constructive input, so I'll just say that GB is "gigabyte", but GiB is "gibibyte", which is binary-based and is a little bit larger than a gigabyte.) Thanks again for the info!
great video man....underrated channel
thanks a lot man , subscribed :)
awesome video, thanks so much!!
1:31, cannot be unseen 😂
Something to know that you won't hear any Affiliated videos is that the results also depends on your system. Some systems will be different so don't expect to get the same numbers you see in the videos.
Thankyou very good explained
Really helpful, thanks!
1:32 I can't unseen it :O
D:
Thanks, helped a lot.
Thanks, Nick. Earned yourself a new sub.
Great explanation, thank you!
Im very new to this so I understand very little.
I used this benchmark on the family desktop and row 1 was 161mb and row 2 was 183mb. I thought that row 1 is the theorietical best and the second row is what it will reasonably do. Its worth noting the desktop uses a hdd
great explaination
"Just a smidge"
Oh, will prolly be like, 40 or smth
"at 65"
Oh, cool so it's double *sips tea*
"thousand"
*pffft!!*
great video!
The verge reference at the beginning 😭😭
Great video, can this be used to get info on transfer speeds between drives and pc memory cards etc ?
The download of CrystalDiskMark 8 Tsukumo Tokka Edition was discontinued on December 31, 2021.
I'm guessing measure time is how often the performance is measured. I see it as, you have a sensor on a water pipe and you measure the pressure of the water every "measure time" seconds if that makes sense. But I could be wrong. @TravisNewton1 had a different idea.
Hey, great video - thanks for making it! Question - I have been having trouble downloading games from Steam lately. I keep getting a "download paused, disk write error" message. I downloaded this software and ran the test, and the bottom 2 in the write column came back with zeros. I have a Sandisk Ultra II SSD. I'm thinking this indicates a problem with my disk. What do you think?
Definitely sounds like an issue with the disk. Is it your C: drive? Download a disk checking utility or use the command prompt.
@@TechIlliterate Hey, thank you for the response! It is not my primary drive - it is a drive I added for extra storage for games, music, etc. My OS is on a different drive. I guess my real question is - if those tests come back with zeroes in the bottom right two columns (my settings were at 5/32gb, if that makes sense to you), does that indicate that I likely have a problem? In any case, you have my sub. Thank you for making videos like this, and for being responsive!
@@Rsivordog It seems like there is a problem but that doesn't necessarily mean the drive is broken. Could be any number of things. Personally I would start with CHCKDSK in the command prompt, re-plug the SATA cable and check for malware.
Thanks!
Thank you very much for this video. But I don't understand why there is not a software wicho could just translate those numbers to say to the user : "ok your hard drive is fine or not".
Great video. Thank you
Incredible video! Thankss
Thanks a lot! ❤
Pls make highlights or specific parts of your podcast as I cant see the entire 1 hour thing but still wanna support . Tell me if you already do
We will be setting up a second channel for clips in the near future :)
@@TechIlliterate cool
Cool vid man
Thanks for dumbing it down to me.
GREAT VIDEO
nice and useful vid
good video. thx!
I have a few question, does the space of storage affect the test result ? If I choose another storage partition with more space of storage than the other, is it gonna represent the result of my storage device or it just represent the result of that partition ?
Anyway, great video !
I think the only time the space of storage would effect speed is when there isn’t enough room to fit the data. I could be wrong though
amazing vid, i have just brought a new WD SN550 500GB SSD and crystaldiskmark 8's SEQ1M Q8T1's result for my SSD is around 1600 MB/s which is very low compared to 2400 MB/s as advertised by Western Digital, should I return my drive and replace with another one or this normal?
i ran the same test on my C drive, 1st row 2029/1680, the 2nd row however is 1860/50? is something failing?
Oh man , i can never unsee the little faces now
Hi there nice video, just one thing if the numbers are low could it be something other than the hdd/sdd like the cpu or ram chips for instance...they all have to work together....F in Uk
thank you :D
I got a gen 4x4 advertising 7400MB/s read and write but after testing i barley got 3216.96 MB/S
1 GiB is one GIBIBYTE. Similarly a KiB is a Kibibyte and MiB is a Mebibyte. This usage is a more accurate description of the number of bytes, or at least a not-inaccurate one. We think of a kilobyte as being 1024 bytes, but actually that doesn't really make sense since kilo means 1000. The more you know 🌠🌈
Thanks Steve! It’s exact and let’s also talk about Windows showing « GB » for drives free space when it’s actually Gibibytes by looking in disk’s properties.
I thought this was explained pretty po orly.
A “Ki *lo* byte” is equal to 1000 bytes, but a “Ki *bi* byte” is equal to 1024 bytes. The same thing occurs with bigger numbers, the “bi” will always mean 1024* of the previous size, while the metric version obviously means 1000.
To address the comment below; windows will show storage size in mebibytes, but will incorrectly label it as megabytes. So if you see your 1TB drive saying it’s only 931GB, that’s normal, and just means windows is stupid, because it for got the “i” in “GiB”. But I’m not sure why they calculate it in GiB anyways.
for some reason my second write speed is better than my first by a fair bit?... same when I retried it too lol.
my western digital an1500 1tb only shows 1600 mb/s while it's advertised for 6500.
thanks just found out my ssd was failing system was feeling way slower than usual and stuttering!!
Apart from H2testw what is the best alternative for testing my SSD to see if it really is 2TB? I read that we shouldn't use H2testw on SSD drives.
Any test will shorten the life of a solid state drive but it is so miniscule in the grand scheme that it isn't worth worrying about. By the time the thing dies you should have upgraded to some new faster tech many years before.
Can I test a new drive through a USB 3.0 enclosure (like a laptop) and still get accurate readings, or does the new drive need to be hooked up inside (in a desktop)?
Yeah you can test via usb. You will be limited by the bandwidth but as long as the devices speed doesn't exceed then it's not an issue.
I don't have the settings tab you do
I have wd pc sn 730 and I am getting 2700 read and 500 write which is way lower than advertised what should I do
Awesome. Thanks 😇
I went to the site and all I see to download is Retro. I downloaded what I thought was for Win 11, but when I run the app, I don't get the same interface that you show on your site. Also, I tried to remove it from my system, but it will not remove. I tried Revo uninstaller, but it didn't show up. I tried the usual Win 11 delete, but It just kept spinning. Furthermore, I tried File Shredder, but that did not work. What to do?
hey is it weird that my SSD puts out higher numbers on real world performance over peak? Also its a Sata SSD (Crucial MX500) rated to 500 MB/s but the benchmark says 7019.41 MB/s read
That seems way off! Unless you have accidentally found a way to widen the SATA bandwidth.
I would check your system before getting an RMA as I would expect it to be user error. For example some m.2 slots have a SATA mode.
Any idea how I test a network drive? Specifically a NAS?