Parkdale

The freeware product offered as a download here is called Parkdale. It’s a dedicated read and write speed testing application suitable for CD-roms, hard disk drives and network shares. It provides two modes, namely the BlockAccess and the FileAccess ones. The first one will directly access the disk, bypassing the file system and the latter will use the filesystem using a normal file to write test data to and read from it. The resulting transfer rates will be shown in KB or MB per second.

Parkdale features adjusting the blocksize and supports being started with command-line options. Furthermore, new in the latest version presented here at the time of writing is the possibility to submit and compare your obtained test results to a dedicated benchmark page.

So, if interested in this read and write speed test application, proceed to the download.