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If you work with real-time video or audio applications, knowing that your drives can keep up is critical. The visual speed display and text results provide a constant report as to the health of your drives. Since performance changes with disk fragmentation and capacity, as well as general deterioration of drive mechanisms as they age, this can be a useful diagnostic.īlackmagic Disk Speed Test works exactly as described and didn't cause any issues in our testing.

When left on your machine, Blackmagic Disk Speed Test continues to perform intermittent read-write tests of the drive and report performance changes over time. When first run, Blackmagic Disk Speed Test writes a big block of data to the selected drive, testing the write speed, then reads it back and reports the results. Below those two dials, there's a checklist of features.

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The app is free and installs easily.īlackmagic Disk Speed Test launches with a dialog sporting two rotary speed gauges, one for reads and the other for writes. Blackmagic Disk Speed Test is designed to let you know how fast your drives are and report their speed changes over time. Why bother? Well, if you are accessing or storing video or other real-time demanding applications, you want a drive that can keep up with the read and write demands of those applications. And also for remote collection of such data by admins, who could use this feature with ARD or other secure command line login.Blackmagic Disk Speed Test is a tool designed to test the speed of your drives. The ability to run Disk Speed Test from the command line would allow for automation. Something that one could import into Excel or some other spreadsheet would be idea. It would be nice if Disk Speed Test had an option to save a log file with the test results for each run. It would be nice to be able to specify a pause between runs. Instead of just running forever, it would be nice to be able to specify that Disk Speed Test is to run some user specified number of times.Ībility to specify the pause period between runsĪt the default values, it is hard to stop the program after it has totally finished one test, and before it has started another. However, a few enhancements would make this program truly wonderful. Show moreĭisk Speed Test is a very useful product and one cannot complain about the price point. You can easily detect when a device is performing subpar and, and with the spinning disk, you can see is transfer speeds deteriorates over time. I have run Blackmagic on USB 2, thumb drives, USB 3, and USB C devices to see if I’m getting my money’s worth. Disk Speed Test is an easy to use tool to quickly measure and certify your disk performance for working with high quality video Simply click the start.

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On an older MacBook Pro the rates I see are 500 MB/S both read and write, as you would expect. Media Express lets you batch capture and playback 2D or even dual stream stereoscopic 3D in uncompressed YUV 4:2:2 and RGB 4:4:4 QuickTime, AVI and DPX, or compressed ProRes, DVCPRO and MJPEG files.

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I have tried this on my older mackbooks with SSD and they do scale down as the device is older. Blackmagic Media Express software comes free with every DeckLink card. On my 2016 MacBook Pro, I am seeing speeds like 1,000+ MB/s write, and 1100+ MB/S read. Since the “volume” is on your Startup Disk, you will see how fast it drive is. In Blackmagic select the disk image mounted. Mount the volume (if it is not already mounted).

Make it big enough for Blackmagic to work with (7+ GB) and name it what you will.

Create a disk image (.dmg) using the disk utility specifying file->new image->blank image. I found a workaround that will report the rates of the Startup Disk. When Blackmagic tries to read the Startup Disk, you get the message that the device is not writeable, hence you cannot rate the the transfer rates of the drive. Multiple CPU cores and GPUs are automatically detected and used during the test so that you get accurate and realistic results.

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Blackmagic has been updated to adequately report the speed of SSD devices. Blackmagic RAW Speed Test is a CPU and GPU benchmarking tool that you can use to test the speed of decoding full resolution Blackmagic RAW frames on your system.

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