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!
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.
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!
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.
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 😈
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.
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.
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 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!
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!
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.
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?
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.
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.
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".
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
excuse me, I'm testing my micro sd caard. when beginning testing, no process, stuck in 'create test files'. how long does it take to create test files?
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?
Does someone know why the developers of this software caution users right below the download link that “CrystalDiskMark may shorten SSD/USB Memory life” ?
Because flash memory has a finite amount of writes and using the software will use some of that life. Not to worry unless you plan to use it a lot. For example my 500gb samsung ssd has 28, 000GB in writes but still has 97% life. I've had it for 6 years.
@@TechIlliterate thank you for the swift reply. I was going to install this utility on a friends laptop but had the jitters when I saw the disclaimer on their website Since my friend would run this utility at most 3 times a year their PC ought to be fine
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)?
Is my drive failing if write tests give only 1/5 of promised speed and average response time jumps between 1k and 25k milliseconds. Read tests are fine and response time stays under 2 ms.
@@tristannn808 over 300gb left on a terabyte drive and the search bar hangs, task manager hangs when closing it, chrome sometimes stutters when i drag it across the screen
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 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
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
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!
Thank you for putting this together in plain language. Appreciate all the effort you put into making this video.
Excellent tutorial. Wish all tutorials on YT were this useful and clear at the same time.
Questions are welcome! Thanks for watching and please don't forget to LIKE! It helps a lot :)
Am I right in assuming that the latency(the number under iops) should be as low as possible?
@@leoutriainen Yes. The lower, the better
Great video! You spent time and effort to make the info clear and easy to understand, that's appreciated. Well done!
this is hands down the funniest tech breakdown video i've seen, thank you
I was really confused by the Crystal Disk Info... didn't realize it was a completely different (simpler) program. lol
Very helpful !
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.
Yeah! Another cultured man using the cultured version of Cystal Disk
the developer is pretty based
Great video, straight to the point, with a little nugget of explanation boiled down to the essentials!
Thanks!
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!
i went for the shizaku edition, great edition
Thank you friend. You explained every bit of it perfectly. Exactly what I was looking for.
Dude, just because you shared the analogy of how threads, etc work. Got a Sub and Like. Thank you man.
I didn't know that Jonny Sins has a Tech page, dude is everywhere!
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).
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.
1:31 in my entire life i've never noticed this, until now, THANKS TO YOU >:C
yeah, great videos buddy..
greetings from Philippines.. great review.
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 😈
Excellent explanation, i understood many things about the software that weren't clear to me.
… aaaand now I can’t unsee the faces.
Great video btw. 👍🏼
really enjoy listening to you explaining!
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.
Dude this video is amazing, you're awesome thanks buddy!
1:30 you fucked me up with this one. Windows will never be the same ever again.
I hoped for more detailed explanation of technical details, like queues and threads.
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.
Great video, can this be used to get info on transfer speeds between drives and pc memory cards etc ?
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.
These how to Tutotia is amazing, as there is a dearth of such educatioin content on YT
I like your sound looks like solid,btw nice setup 👍
😅
great video man....underrated channel
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!
Uninstalled the Normal edition. installed Shizuku edition. (Man of culture moment)
my computer has read speed of 95 MB/s
I have 507 read and 442 write
Another man of culture.
nice explanation saitama! POWER!
best explaination ive heard yet! and funny too xD
thank you so my new friend,look forward to more videos.
Thank you for making this video. Now i know what are those for.
This was a lot of helpful, Thank You
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 for the explanation video Pinkman
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.
there's no option to choose a drive on this software for me. Seems like it only tests the C drive?
theres no option for me to even test. im so confused.
Subbed, Great Tutorial Bro.
Thanks, Nick. Earned yourself a new sub.
Thanks for explaining. Thumbs up
Thanks man this helped a lot!
The verge reference at the beginning 😭😭
thanks a lot man , subscribed :)
i ran the same test on my C drive, 1st row 2029/1680, the 2nd row however is 1860/50? is something failing?
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
How to unsee the faces now? Great vid mate!
1:30 I'll never unsee the faces now. . .
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?
Okay the whimsical little faces made me laugh 😂
man of culture
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.
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
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.
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".
awesome video, thanks so much!!
The download of CrystalDiskMark 8 Tsukumo Tokka Edition was discontinued on December 31, 2021.
10:20 don't forget the most important thing
I'd really like to know what SSD you were using that gave you 462,894 IOPS and a RND4K Q32T16 score of 1896.
Great explanation, thank you!
for some reason my second write speed is better than my first by a fair bit?... same when I retried it too lol.
Thankyou very good explained
Nice tutorial, thanks!
Thanks, helped a lot.
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
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
excuse me, I'm testing my micro sd caard.
when beginning testing, no process, stuck in 'create test files'.
how long does it take to create test files?
I have not seen this issue. How big is the SD card?
@@TechIlliterate 1 TB sd card. i use another speed test, gosh 4mb/s write.
Also apply to my pen drive which have around 8 GB. Stuck in create
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?
Does someone know why the developers of this software caution users right below the download link that “CrystalDiskMark may shorten SSD/USB Memory life” ?
Because flash memory has a finite amount of writes and using the software will use some of that life. Not to worry unless you plan to use it a lot. For example my 500gb samsung ssd has 28, 000GB in writes but still has 97% life. I've had it for 6 years.
@@TechIlliterate " 500gb samsung ssd has 28, 000GB in writes but still has 97% life " how do i check these things on my pc?
@@Craze_Lifter This is the number reported by HWiNFO. Good software for diagnostic info.
@@TechIlliterate thank you for the swift reply. I was going to install this utility on a friends laptop but had the jitters when I saw the disclaimer on their website
Since my friend would run this utility at most 3 times a year their PC ought to be fine
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.
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.
Cool vid man
great video!
the results are drastically different but i think its because its a gen 4 nvme ssd using pcie 4 while im using pcie 3
Any idea how I test a network drive? Specifically a NAS?
Is my drive failing if write tests give only 1/5 of promised speed and average response time jumps between 1k and 25k milliseconds. Read tests are fine and response time stays under 2 ms.
Which drive and which test readings?
@@TechIlliterate kingston a400 ssd and all of the write tests
@@tristannn808 but the problem only now occured, im getting freezes in games and the os feels sluggish
@@tristannn808 no, only crystaldiskinfo and kingston ssd manager. Both said 97%
@@tristannn808 over 300gb left on a terabyte drive and the search bar hangs, task manager hangs when closing it, chrome sometimes stutters when i drag it across the screen
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.
great explaination
My 990pro on my ally is throwing 502mbs read. I wonder if my l adapter is messed up
Really helpful, thanks!
I got a gen 4x4 advertising 7400MB/s read and write but after testing i barley got 3216.96 MB/S
my western digital an1500 1tb only shows 1600 mb/s while it's advertised for 6500.
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.
Incredible video! Thankss
thanks just found out my ssd was failing system was feeling way slower than usual and stuttering!!
If there drastically different then the manufacturers results consider getting a RMA??? What is a RMA?
Basically an exchange from the manufacturer. It would be easier in many cases to return it to the store.
@@TechIlliterate oh ok haha ty man
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
Great video. Thank you
36 write speed when advertized is 450 :( what do i do??
Just did this but all of the Read and Write sections are zeroes, what does this mean?