A software test to quantify various aspects of a system's or application's performance and efficiency
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Can hard-drive benchmark apps damage your hard-drive?
I want to measure the read/write speed of my hard-drive.
I came accross this page recommending Blackmagic Disk Speed Test.
There is a frame saying this:
Note: Blackmagic Disk Speed Test puts hard ...
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How to run a performance benchmark on my MacBook Pro?
I need to run some sort of performance benchmark to measure how slow my MacBook Pro is (and why)—a 15" MacBook Pro (late 2008) with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4 GB of DDR3 memory, and ...
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Is my SSD drive faulty when Blackmagic disk speed test shows decreasing write speed as low as 10 Mb/s?
I have old plastic white MacBook 13'' 2007 mid late.
In previous year I have bought SSD and replaced old one (HDD).
Everything was Ok, but in last month i started seen how sometime OS become stuck ...
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iPad 3 max framerate
Has anyone tried to test the maximum frame rate one an iPad 3 connected to a 120Hz screen for example?
I would like to know if it's possible to achieve more than the 60fps using the any ...
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What is a good http benchmark program for Mac OS X?
What is a good http benchmark program for Mac OS X?
I have Apache's 'ab' installed, but it's buggy and there doesn't seem to be a Mac OS X package for Apache as an upgrade. I don't like compiling and ...
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MacBook Air mid 2011 Geekbench results too low
My MacBook Air from mid 2011 recently only scores about ~1800 on geekbench vs 5300+ that it was before. I'm starting the benchmarking right after reboot, and the CPU seems initially calm. Any points?
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How fast should my MBP internal drive be?
I'be been experiencing an ongoing (if not precisely measurable) feeling that my MBP is underperforming, and it seems to be related to disk IO. I recently downloaded a disk benchmarking tool, to see ...
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How do I determine the speed of a disk drive?
I'm looking for a way to determine the read/write speed of a disk drive, either by looking up some system information or running a simple benchmark test utility.
