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
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 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.
ive got myself a 990 pro and it shows 3270 MB/s on the first Read, and 3191 MB/s on the first Write place, its like half the speed it shows on the box :/ i dont know whats wrong
Yes i had it in the Wrong M.2 Slot, not it shows around 6000 MB/s read and Write, Put it in the m.2 Closer to your CPU, thats how i fixed it @@reda-w4g its still not the 7450MB/s but i guess thats on my mainboard being a little old
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.
Steam for some reason gives me 0 disk speed in downloads now, so I wanted to know if my solid disk was breaking, it seems to be a Steam's download problem only.
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!
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.
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?
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
Hey I have a question, I tested my SSD using this software and after testing my read speed is 7000mb/s but my write speed is 1200mb/s.. so is this normal? 😅
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?
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".
My tested drive is a WD WDS200T2B0A Blue 3D NAND 2TB PC SSD. It has advertised read / write speeds of 560 / 530 MB/S, respectively. Running this program it is showing 285 / 268 MB/S 😥😥😥😥😥😥
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 !
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)?
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
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'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.
Thank you! Also, would anyone be able to tell me if Crystal Disk Mark leaves any of the 1GB test files on the C Drive that I would need to delete to get the space back or no?
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
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 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.
I was really confused by the Crystal Disk Info... didn't realize it was a completely different (simpler) program. lol
Very helpful !
this is hands down the funniest tech breakdown video i've seen, thank you
Yeah! Another cultured man using the cultured version of Cystal Disk
the developer is pretty based
Great video! You spent time and effort to make the info clear and easy to understand, that's appreciated. Well done!
I didn't know that Jonny Sins has a Tech page, dude is everywhere!
Dude, just because you shared the analogy of how threads, etc work. Got a Sub and Like. Thank you man.
Great video, straight to the point, with a little nugget of explanation boiled down to the essentials!
Thanks!
This is the go to tutorial for CrystalDiskMark.
Excellent work, thank you!
Thank you friend. You explained every bit of it perfectly. Exactly what I was looking for.
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!
yeah, great videos buddy..
greetings from Philippines.. great review.
Thank you so much Nick. English is not my first language but you made this very easy to understand.
i went for the shizaku edition, great edition
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!
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.
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
Dude this video is amazing, you're awesome thanks buddy!
Excellent explanation, i understood many things about the software that weren't clear to me.
1:31 in my entire life i've never noticed this, until now, THANKS TO YOU >:C
great video man....underrated channel
… aaaand now I can’t unsee the faces.
Great video btw. 👍🏼
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).
nice explanation saitama! POWER!
That is what I use but never really understood exactly but that explained is great. Thanks.
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
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.
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 😈
This was a lot of helpful, Thank You
I like your sound looks like solid,btw nice setup 👍
😅
best explaination ive heard yet! and funny too xD
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.
ive got myself a 990 pro and it shows 3270 MB/s on the first Read, and 3191 MB/s on the first Write place, its like half the speed it shows on the box :/ i dont know whats wrong
What the hell, that's the one I was planning on upgrading to, the 2TB version. Did you fix that issue?
Yes i had it in the Wrong M.2 Slot, not it shows around 6000 MB/s read and Write, Put it in the m.2 Closer to your CPU, thats how i fixed it @@reda-w4g its still not the 7450MB/s but i guess thats on my mainboard being a little old
Thanks, Nick. Earned yourself a new sub.
Thank you for the explanation video Pinkman
These how to Tutotia is amazing, as there is a dearth of such educatioin content on YT
Subbed, Great Tutorial Bro.
Thanks man this helped a lot!
thank you so my new friend,look forward to more videos.
Thanks for explaining. Thumbs up
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.
Uninstalled the Normal edition. installed Shizuku edition. (Man of culture moment)
Great video, can this be used to get info on transfer speeds between drives and pc memory cards etc ?
Thank you for making this video. Now i know what are those for.
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.
thanks a lot man , subscribed :)
Another man of culture.
1:30 you fucked me up with this one. Windows will never be the same ever again.
Steam for some reason gives me 0 disk speed in downloads now, so I wanted to know if my solid disk was breaking, it seems to be a Steam's download problem only.
I hoped for more detailed explanation of technical details, like queues and threads.
Great explanation, thank you!
awesome video, thanks so much!!
Thankyou very good explained
i ran the same test on my C drive, 1st row 2029/1680, the 2nd row however is 1860/50? is something failing?
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!
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
Nice tutorial, thanks!
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.
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
great video!
great explaination
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
Cool vid man
36 write speed when advertized is 450 :( what do i do??
Really helpful, thanks!
5:10 is this the same for micro sd cards
How to unsee the faces now? Great vid mate!
My 990pro on my ally is throwing 502mbs read. I wonder if my l adapter is messed up
The download of CrystalDiskMark 8 Tsukumo Tokka Edition was discontinued on December 31, 2021.
Great video. Thank you
Incredible video! Thankss
Hey I have a question, I tested my SSD using this software and after testing my read speed is 7000mb/s but my write speed is 1200mb/s.. so is this normal? 😅
I don't have the settings tab you do
Any idea how I test a network drive? Specifically a NAS?
Just did this but all of the Read and Write sections are zeroes, what does this mean?
Why could I be having a Q32T16 speed of 7 with an SSD? should I change it? Is a lower value worse or better?
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?
What is close to the advertised speed my drive is advertised at 7300/6900 and is only 6400/6225 does that seem within the allowed?
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".
My tested drive is a WD WDS200T2B0A Blue 3D NAND 2TB PC SSD.
It has advertised read / write speeds of 560 / 530 MB/S, respectively. Running this program it is showing 285 / 268 MB/S 😥😥😥😥😥😥
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
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.
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
Im looking for a program to test the power on hours on my hard drives, any suggestions?
what does it mean if the read of my SEQ1M Q1T1 is half of my SEQ1M Q8T1? Is there something wrong?
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.
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
GREAT VIDEO
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.
nice and useful vid
There is also CrystalDiskInfo/Report....Is it the same as CrystalDiskMark ?
man of culture
I have 7085 read/ 6786 write with my 990. How do I check the life span of my mve?
Thank you! Also, would anyone be able to tell me if Crystal Disk Mark leaves any of the 1GB test files on the C Drive that I would need to delete to get the space back or no?
Nope
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
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?