Avid Xpress Pro - Media Composer and Testing Drive Speed
When editing with Avid or any other editing application drive speed is very important. The manufacture of your drive normally lists the speed of the drive but this may not be accurate or through time you may have a problem in your system either with the drive or maybe a cable. There is a great utility called HD_Speed produced by Steel Bytes. This tests the speed of all of your drives including your CD or DVD rom. This is a freeware and is a fast download. Measures both sustained and burst data transfer rates of your hard disks, cd/dvd-roms and floppy. Real-time graphical display. Download it today and make sure you are running at full capacity!
