Solid-state drives (SSD) have obvious advantages than the traditional mechanical hard disk drives (HDD), but do not mistakenly believe that an SSD does not need optimization. However, for the optimization of SSD, many users may just know one optimization setting - a new SSD should be formatted with 4K alignment. In fact, SSD actually has a lot of places that can be optimized for making its speed faster and service life longer.

CrystalDiskMark is a handy and practical utility designed to test the performance (random & continuous read/write speed) of your hard drive (HDD/SSD) or other storage devices. In order to identify the performance and quality of them, which is especially suitable for the hard disk newly purchased or used for a long time.