Read and Write Speed Testers for the USB Flash Drive

Many people today simply buy on the storage size of the USB flash drive for the price and they do not take into account how fast or slow the performance of the drive is. After that you found out the high capacity USB flash drive it take hours or less to fill it up completely. So, this is why you feel frustrating but could be a waste of money if you have to go and buy something a bit faster for your needs.

The question is how do we know about the speed of USB flash drives? Maybe the following reliable freewares can show to us their results:

Check Flash

Check Flash is a free flash drive tester for Windows-based computers, developed by Cherkes Mihail. It allows user to examine the read and write speed of flash drive, edit partition information, save and reinstate full drive and partition images as well as MBR. It also carry out the full drive or partition cleaning and process device testing at the highest possible speed.

There is no installation for the application software. Simply download the files and then run the exe. The supported operating systems are Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7 and 8.

Take a look the video demonstration by Károly Zsidi:

This program can be very dangerous with the dull person, be careful. After performing full erasing or write and read test with partition or device all data will lost forever! The programmer does not responsible for usage of this software.

CrystalDiskMark

CrystalDiskMark is a portable freeware for disk benchmarking especially to true techno-geeks. It can measures the performance for sequential and random reads/writes of various sizes for any storage device. You can select your own test data (Random, 0Fill, 1Fill), includes theme support and has multilingual support.

This freeware it has seperate distinction for 32-bit and 64-bit for operating system and it requires admin rights to operate.

In order to get the precise result, it's recommended to close all the other applications or programs before hitting the start button. Therefore, it needs just a couple of minutes to perform all the benchmarks.

Click here to download.

FLASH DRIVE/CARD TESTER

This generic freeware tool developed by Virtual Console, is used to testing flash drives, SD, CF, MMC cards for bad or unstable sectors. You must manually select the type of test you like, and it will create a log report after the read or write test or both. Please take a prudent decission before you choose "write test" or "read, write and compare" action, backup first your files or else it will delete all your files during the test operation. This software it also requires installation.

Click here to download.

SPEED OUT

SpeedOut is a small and portable freeware tool which tells the reading and writing speed of your USB flash drives and developed by unknown source or author. It can be handled even by beginner. The program runs the tests at a low level (needs to be run as admin) which means the scores aren’t affected by the drive file system.

The best portion of this software is that it doesn’t require any formatting after you test your flash drive and also it doesn’t damage any data during the test operation.

To save test results, just point your mouse pointer to the title bar of the window software. Right-click or another alternative is ALT+SPACE the context menu will appear, select your option; copy to clipboard or save as text file.

Click here to download.

USB FLASH BENCHMARK

USB Flash Benchmark is a portable freeware tool developed by Heep.ru. It can be used to probe the read and write speed of any USB flash drive, or even other drives. USB Benchmark Speed Testing is done by way of small 1KB file chunks up to large 16MB file chunks, and the results are graphed so you can see completely how well a drive conducts with varying file sizes. When the testing is done, the information on screen is a bit enormous and puzzling. After that there is a option, a pop-up window provides a URL which will take you to your online results, including well-displayed read and write speeds.

Take a look the video demonstration by Юрий Шатохин:

Click here to download.

USBDeview

USBDeview is a small and potable utility developed by Nirsoft that lists all USB devices that currently connected to your computer, as well as all USB devices that you previously used. Some of the feature is the option to benchmark a flash drive and the given or final results can be publish to the Nirsoft Speed Tests webpage for viewing and comparison. 

How to execute the speed test for the flash drive?

By simply find your USB device which should be highlighted in green with a device type of “Mass Storage”, right click on it and select Speed Test (Ctrl+T). Click Start Test and it will sequentially read and write a 100MB file to get the scores. Then you can choose to publish the test results if you wish by clicking the button and ticking the box to agree to publish the results.

Click here to download.

References:

• http://downloads.tomsguide.com/Flash-Check,0301-22182.html
• http://www.filecluster.com/System-Utilities/File-Disk-Management/Download-Check-Flash.html
• http://www.filecluster.com/reviews/122013/check-flash-quickly-test-and-format-your-usb-drives/
• http://www.pcworld.com/article/2455205/test-the-speed-of-your-usb-drives.html
• http://www.pendriveapps.com/usb-flash-benchmark/
• https://www.raymond.cc/blog/test-read-and-write-speed-of-usb-flash-drives-with-usbdeview/
• http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html
• http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Benchmarks/SpeedOut.shtml
• http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/speedout-checks-usb-external-hdd-readwrite-speed/