How to Benchmark & Monitor Hard Disk & USB Drives

Here are two freeware portable utilities which will help you benchmark & monitor your hard disk & USB Drives.

With the help of CrystalDiskMark utility, you can benchmark and test your hard disk & USB drives read & write speeds.

CrystalDiskInfo is a HDD/SSD utility software which supports S.M.A.R.T.

It supports a part of external USB disks  helps in Monitoring the health status and temperatures. It throws up a lot of information about your drives.

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