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Best DiskSpd Alternatives in 2026

Taken from Disk Benchmark Software, where DiskSpd is listed too, in the same order.

  1. 1

    Parkdale

    Parkdale is a free utility for measuring read and write speeds on hard disks, CD-ROM devices, and network servers.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Android
    7.9 Club score
  2. 2

    fio

    fio is a free command-line tool for simulating user-defined I/O workloads for performance testing and reproducing bugs.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux
    7.9 Club score
  3. 3

    AJA System Test

    AJA System Test is a free utility for assessing drive performance and estimating whether storage can record and play back particular resolutions and codecs.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS
    7.7 Club score
  4. 4

    ATTO Disk Benchmark

    ATTO Disk Benchmark is a free utility for measuring storage read performance, write performance, and I/O throughput.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS
    7.5 Club score
  5. 5

    Storage Benchmark Kit

    Storage Benchmark Kit (SBK) is a Java framework for measuring storage throughput and latency under a shared workload engine.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · API
    7.5 Club score
  6. 6

    Iometer

    Iometer is a free I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single systems and clusters.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux
    7.4 Club score
  7. 7

    simple-disk-benchmark

    simple-disk-benchmark is a free, MIT-licensed command-line tool for measuring disk performance on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux
    7.4 Club score
  8. 8

    CrystalDiskMark

    CrystalDiskMark is Windows software for measuring disk and storage performance.

    • Free plan
    • Windows
    7.4 Club score
  9. 9

    SSD Benchmark

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux
    7.3 Club score
  10. 10

    Bonnie++

    Bonnie++ is a free, Linux command-line benchmark suite for measuring filesystem and disk I/O performance.

    • Free plan
    • Linux · Self-hosted
    7.2 Club score
  11. 11

    Illumine IT disk-benchmark

    Illumine IT disk-benchmark is a free console program for measuring storage performance.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · Linux
    7.1 Club score
  12. 12

    disk-mark-me

    disk-mark-me is a command-line shell script for benchmarking disk performance on Linux and macOS.

    • Free plan
    • macOS · Linux
    7.1 Club score
  13. 13

    Quickbench

    Quickbench is a free Bash script for checking basic performance on Linux hosts, including virtual machines.

    • Free plan
    • Linux
    7.1 Club score
  14. 14

    AmorphousDiskMark

    AmorphousDiskMark is a free, open-source macOS app for measuring storage read and write performance.

    • Free plan
    • macOS
    7.1 Club score
  15. 15

    D-Bench

    D-Bench is a free Windows utility for measuring read and write performance on SSDs, HDDs, NVMe drives and USB storage.

    • Free plan
    • Windows
    7.1 Club score
  16. 16

    Disk Bench

    Disk Bench is a completely free Windows utility that measures disk performance through file operations rather than synthetic benchmarks.

    • Free plan
    • Windows
    7.1 Club score
  17. 17

    Modern FS Benchmark

    • Free plan
    • Linux · Self-hosted
    7.1 Club score
  18. 18

    dperf

    dperf is a Linux command-line utility for measuring drive throughput and spotting storage bottlenecks or outliers across multiple drives.

    • Free plan
    • Linux · Self-hosted
    7.1 Club score
  19. 19

    AS SSD Benchmark

    AS SSD Benchmark is a free Windows utility for measuring solid-state drive performance.

    • Free plan
    • Windows
    7.0 Club score
  20. 20

    DiskMark

    DiskMark is a Windows utility for benchmarking disks and hard drives.

    • Free plan
    • Windows
    7.0 Club score

The whole list: Disk Benchmark Software