As the Iometer User’s Guide says, Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems. It was originally developed by the Intel Corporation and announced at the Intel Developers Forum (IDF) on February 17, 1998 – since then it got wide spread within the industry.
Category Archives: Windows
NAS performance tester
This free utility benchmarks the read and write performance in megabytes per second of network attached storage connected through SMB/CIFS network shares.
Test Your Hard Drive Speed
How about Roadkil.net’s Disk Speed? A nice little program if your hard drive test isn’t listed under the device manager.
Create Custom Windows XP CD with SATA Drivers
With the widespread introduction of SATA hard disk drives and the unexpected longevity of the Windows XP operating system a lot of users nowadays are having problems when trying to install Windows XP.
Installing Windows XP With F6 AHCI/RAID Drivers From DVD Without Floppy Drive
1. Formulation of the problem You need to install Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server onto PC or server without floppy drive. SATA controller is in AHCI/RAID mode, so you need to use F6 floppy disk supplied by hardware vendor. Server has USB ports and DVD drive.
FlashBoot
FlashBoot is a tool to make USB storage devices bootable. FlashBoot supports USB thumbdrives and USB HDDs. FlashBoot partitions, formats USB storage device and then automatically installs operating system files to it. Supported operating systems: Windows 7/Vista, Windows XP, SysLinux-based disks, GRUB4DOS disks, Linux kernel etc.