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Disk Performance

Disk performamce can be measured with Microsoft's DiskSpd (GitHub) tool.

The precreation of the test file is recommended:

diskspd.exe -c16G C:\test.dat

Recommended Tests:

Short	Block Size	Workload	Read/Write	Command
R_4K_70/30RW	4K	Random	70% Read / 30% Write	`diskspd.exe -b4K -r -w30 -t8 -o16 -d30 -W10 -Sh C:\test.dat`
S_64K_100W	64K	Sequencial	100% Write	`diskspd.exe -b64K -si -w100 -t8 -o16 -d30 -W10 -Sh C:\test.dat`