📚 Want to know how fast a drive is? Here's how on Windows 10 with DiskSpd.

Do you want to know how your PC's storage performs? Here's how using the DiskSpd command-line tool for Windows 10. In Windows 10, DiskSpd is an optional command-line tool that Microsoft has designed to test workload storage performance. Using this tool, you can quickly determine the performance of a drive to confirm if it's as fast as the manufacturer has advertised. Or you can compare the reads and writes of different hard drives to find out which is the fastest for specific workloads. For example, when you are building a server or workstation to host virtual machines, web hosting server, database, or you plan to run heavy input/output operations per second (IOPS) applications. Whatever the reason might be, the DiskSpd includes many options that can help create a stress test to measure the maximum reads and writes performance a drive can handle, and the tool works on Windows 10 and Windows Server. In this Windows 10 guide, we will walk you through the steps to get started benchma... ...