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SSD Read Speed Tester

SSD Read Speed Tester 2.04

Regular SSD benchmarks write the own test files but SSD Read Speed Tester uses older files to truly assess the speed your SSD reads older files. . Learn what's new on this latest version. Click here if the download does not begin automatically.

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As data ages on the Samsung 840 EVO, the SSD's retrieval speed of those old files can drop dramatically, sometimes even to speeds below 50 MB/s on files that are a few months old.

This problem went undetected for about a year because regular SSD benchmark programs write their own test file (to test write speeds), and then immediately turn around and read that same file to test read speeds. This means that all the traditional SSD benchmarking programs never see this phenomenon because they are always reading a fresh file. Since testing for this strange SSD behavior would require a new method of benchmarking, I wrote a new benchmarking program that would specifically test for an age/speed correlation by reading files already on the SSD, and then display its findings graphically. Read more.

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