Drive Performance – Optimize Your Hard Drive

Optimize Your Hard Drive for a PC That Keeps Up with You

iolo Labs recently sought to quantify performance improvements across several different Windows® computers after each had installed System Mechanic®. The full results, categorized by major PC component, are published here: http://iolo.com/resources/articles/system-mechanic-performance-benchmarking/.

In this fourth article in the series, we unpack the data from the above white paper showing that System Mechanic improved hard drive performance by an average of 18%.

Results

  • The UltraBook’s HDD averaged performance gains of over 44%.
  • The high-performance nature of the Desktop’s state-of-the-art SSD contributed to its limited improvement.
  • The lower-end SSD- and HDD-based systems saw more significant increases.
  • The aggregate score (across all PCs) for Drive Performance was: 18% improved.

For separate hard drive results for each of the PCs, see the chart below.

Drive (Primary Storage) Performance
Improvement (%) after running System Mechanic

Drive Performance Chart

The following tools within System Mechanic were designed to help contribute to this increased hard drive performance:

Program Accelerator uses patented calibration technology to realign program data for the fastest possible access. The result is quicker program launches and more responsive drive performance.

Disk Defragmenter consolidates scattered file fragments on your hard drive, boosting file access speed and further increasing drive efficiency.

AcceleWrite writes data to the hard disk in contiguous batches to avoid fragmentation before it can occur, resulting in increased read/write speeds and faster program behavior.

All-in-One PC Cleanup combines many tools in one to perform a deep cleaning of the hard drive by safely removing all Windows, internet and registry junk with one click.

Methods

To measure gains in drive speed after installing System Mechanic, PerformanceTest 9.0 by PassMark Software and NovaBench 3 by Novawave Inc. tested disk read, write and seeks within disk files as well as input-output operations per second.

Four computers were subjected to the tests five times each before installation of System Mechanic and five times each after. The highest and lowest scores were removed from the sample set, and the remaining three scores averaged to calculate final scores.

Overall, the results of the iolo Labs benchmark tests make clear that System Mechanic can demonstrably improve the performance of the principal components of a PC. Among the wide array of tasks that can be improved are gaming, rendering, streaming, graphic design, office tasks and more.

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What is iolo's Whole Home License?

The Whole Home License® is iolo’s licensing policy that allows you to install and keep your software running on all of your compatible devices within the same home. Previously, users were allowed to install and license their iolo software simultaneously on a maximum of three PCs. Under the Whole Home License, a single activation key allows you to use your iolo software on all of your PCs, other than any PCs you use for business purposes. What you need to know about Whole Home Licensing

  • You, your spouse, and your relatives living within the same household may use the same license on any number of PCs that you own which are not used for business.
  • For full legal terms and conditions, see https://www.iolo.com/company/legal/eula/

To install your iolo product on additional PCs:

  1. On the additional computer, download the latest version of your iolo product. Choose from the list of downloads offered here.
  2. Follow the steps in the installation wizard, and enter the same Activation Key that you used to install on your original computer.

You can view the Activation Key on the original computer from within System Mechanic > red menu bar > key icon > Activation Key.