====== Measure your hard drive speed using Winsat ======
Winsat will not give you fancy graphs but it will give a Windows rating and a time to complete specific tests.  This can be a way of measuring your drives between tweaks.

At a command prompt run the following tweak as an administrator:
<code>
winsat disk -drive c                 (you can substitute c with the drive letter of your choice)
</code>
====== 3rd Party Software ======
  * [[http://www.roadkil.net/program.php/P13/Disk%20Speed|Roadkil.net’s Disk Speed]]
  * [[http://majorgeeks.com/CheckDiskGUI_d6731.html|CheckDiskGUI]]
  * [[http://thesz.diecru.eu/content/parkdale.php|Parkdale]]
  * [[http://www.attotech.com/products/product.php?sku=Disk_Benchmark|ATTO]] - “The industry’s leading provider of high-performance storage connectivity products” has great products and an excellent benchmarking utility that measures your hard drive’s I/O read/write ability.