Ever wondered how fast you hard disks really are? If you did asked yourself this question, you should probably try finding an answer with the help of Disk Bench.

Just like its name suggests, this application has been specifically designed to put your hard disks up to a test, save the results and present them to you in a nice and clean way.

Disk Bench doesn’t come packed in an installer, which makes the whole thing a lot easier, so it’s being delivered as a standard executable file which needs just a double click to start the application.

The interface is nothing special, just a few tabs that let you meet the benchmarks offered by the app. Copy a file, copy a directory, create a file, read a file or create a file batch, they’re all waiting for a click to start flirting with your hard disk.

We’ve tried the first one, so here’s a tip: the transfer rate you’ll get with smaller files will always be higher than with larger ones, but there’s still a thing to remember here.

We’ve tested our hard disk with a 4GB file and the program crashed during the test, so try not to use too large files when starting a test.

Overall, Disk Bench is a tiny utility that can prove to be much more efficient than other complex and heavily advertised software solutions out there. And with a few improvements here and there, it could really become a top player in this software category.