TestDisk’s website says the program is designed “to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software: certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table).” One thing to understand about storage drives is that when you delete a file or partition table, the data is still on the disk. (It’s also available in the Arch Linux Extra repo.) It turns out it’s in the official Ubuntu repositories that ship with Ubuntu 16.04. It works like a charm, but does so without the aid of a flashy GUI.

TestDisk has been around for a while, and was even reviewed by PCWorld in 2011. Note: What is Benchmark? In computing, a benchmark is the act of running a computer program, a set of programs, or other operations, in order to assess the relative performance of an object, normally by running a number of standard tests and trials against it.After a mild panic attack and several assurances to her that I could fix it, I found the program that saved my butt: TestDisk. Note: This option to Benchmark your disks is available only in DSM 7, but not DSM 6.2.4

Guess who won the test? The Synology disks, obviously! Note: In the image below I tested the SAT5200 SSD vs Crucial MX500 SSD. Latency: Disk latency refers to the time delay between a request for data and the return of the data.Throughput: Disk throughput is the measurement of how fast (per second) your storage can read/write data.IOPS: Input/output operations per second.You can discover the following parameters for both Read / Write Performance: Follow the instructions in the image below.Īfter you click Benchmark, the Benchmark test on your disk will start. Select your disk from the list then click the Action tab and then “ Benchmark“. In the Storage Manager left panel, click HDD/SSD. Follow the instructions in the image below. Follow the instructions in the image below.Ĭlick on the Storage Manager icon. Please Support My work by Making a Donation. Did you know DSM 7 offers the possibility to benchmark your HDD disks, your SSD disks and your NVMe disks? Today I’m going to teach you how to automatically benchmark your disks yourself from home, and find out which disks are better than others.

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