Professionals waited for a new ATTO version for ages

Aug 14, 2015 08:18 GMT  ·  By

ATTO, one of the most popular storage drive benchmarks used by both storage drive manufacturers and consumers to check drive speeds, has just released its new V3.05 version.

Being a reliable liaison between drive manufacturers and consumers, ATTO receives high admiration for representing some sort of common ground for people passionate for hard drives, both those who build them and those who use them.

The ATTO Disk Benchmark will measure your storage system's performance using various transfer sizes and test lengths for reads and writes. Users can tweak their performance measurement using queue depth and overlapped I/O. They can test everything related to their hard drives, including storage controllers, RAID controllers, hard drives and SSD drives, and many other features.

ATTO Disk Benchmark Tool v2.47 originally came out four years ago. It was an excellent product version and managed to provide accurate and reliable read/write ratings for many years, even though the technology kept progressing.

However, even if the hard disks it was testing improved from generation to generation, ATTO did not, and for years it used the same base code and the same testing thresholds: transfer sizes from 512KB to 8MB and transfer lengths from 64KB to 2GB.

The new version, however, improves that and expands its supported transfer sizes from 512KB to 64MB and the transfer lengths from 64KB to 32GB.

You can also check out our HyperX Predator review, which was tested using the v2.47​ ATTO Disk Benchmark​.