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.
Hard Drive Benchmark – Determining the Speed of a Disk Drive
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Best Answer
Xbench: Comprehensive Macintosh Benchmarking
Freeware benchmarking solution for Mac OS X.
EDIT: The download link is in the right-hand corner.
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