I’ve been interested in a SSD or HDD upgrade for my HDD recently after monitoring it on task manager and noticing it cap out at 10 MB/s however I researched a more accurate way to test it and used “winsat disk -drive d” command in the command prompt and found 180.31 MB/s for read and 157.13 MB/s for write and I’m not sure which of these values to compare with the MB/s show on offers online. I’m aware that I might be fully misunderstanding all of the information so any explanations about what to look for would be greatly appreciated.
Take note of the difference between sequential and random reads/writes.
HDDs aren’t all that great at random reads/writes, SSDs don’t really care if it’s random or sequential.
Your HDD can be at 100% usage and only show 10MB’s when it’s reading or writing lots of small files all over the drive.