Adaptec's ThreadMark v1.0 tortures your hard drive subsystem, recreating intense I/O activity under WinNT and Win95 with a mixture of single and multi-threaded read and write requests across a range of requested block sizes. Once the benchmark is complete, it will indicate your hard drive subsystem's data transfer rate (in MB/sec), and CPU utilization percent. INSTALLATION: Install the Threadmark application via the bootDisc interface and launch it through the Start Menu (It can be found under Threadmark in the Programs group. )
NOTE: You'll need 126MB free on the drive you wish to benchmark. Once you launch the benchmark, simply press the TM Start button on the right hand side and sit back. This test will take about 30 to 45 minutes. Upon completion, you'll get a detailed report of your hard drive subsystem.
THE RANGE: 1 MB/sec is considered bare-bones minimum scoring, with average EIDE systems scoring about 2.5MB/sec. Score anything past 4.5MB/sec, and you're cooking with gas.
