tecCHANNEL Benchmark Suite

tecBench Operating Instructions II

A double click on one of the drives or a click on the start button starts the benchmark run and activates the property page "Benchmark". While running the test the results are shown in the upper graph "Transfer rate". In the bar chart ("Transfer rate") on the left below you find a table that summarizes the measured minimal ("Min", yellow), average ("Avg", blue), and maximum ("Max", green) transfer rate.

The second test run adds the burst rate ("Burst", red) to the bar chart. The burst rate is the maximum transfer rate that is possible during read access from the drive's cache. The third benchmark run determines the drive's access times and shows them in the bar chart on the right ("Access time").

Measurements with tecHD determine the average access time within the drive's first 500 MBytes ("500M", yellow) and for the complete drive ("Avg", blue). Benchmark runs with tecCD principally use the complete media/drive and show the measured minimal ("Min", yellow), average ("Avg", blue), and maximum ("Max", green) access time. Via the Export button you can save the graph and the bar charts as BMP image files. With the Reference button the average transfer rate and the access time are added to the reference database.

The third property page "Evaluation" releases its functionality not until the test is done. Here the average transfer rate and the average access time of the current benchmark run can be compared with the results from the reference database. The Add button inserts another record from the reference database in the two charts, the Remove button removes it. Via Export button also these charts can be saved as image files.