Measuring performance of a Windows PC or server

[barrymavin]

Did you know that Windows has a built-in utility for measuring CPU and disk performance.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...(v=ws.11).aspx

From an elevated command prompt (Run as administrator) type the following commands:

winsat cpu
winsat disk -drive c

[josipradnik]

Interesting information.
I have compared my SSD vs. HDD in the same laptop, finding SSD is at least 3 times faster than HDD according these numbers.
Even 6 - 40 times. I've never regretted putting SSD instead of DVD drive. A small loss for the great gain.

		Solid state	HDD	improvement
Random read	MB/s	1290	195	6x
Sequential read	MB/s	239	75	3x
Sequential write	MB/s	230	75	3x
Av.read w/ seq.write	ms	0.383	6	15x
Latency 95 Percentill	ms	0.609	24	40x
Latency max	ms	65	234	3x
Av.read w/ rand.write	ms	0.368	7	20x

BTW, "winsat cpu" needs an additional option (-encryption or -compression) to work.

[hmischel@diligentsystems.com]

Thanks Barry, Josip,

Very informative.

Herb