Blackmagic Disk Speed Test App Reviews

This has TWO buttons Button 1: Looks like a gear and allows you to pick the drive to test and set a few test parameters. Button 2: The START button - which is also the stop button. Push gear and pick your drive - then push the start button and it will do a write followed by a read - with the results reported below. (This loops until you click start again.) It could not be simpler. I just check a flash drive I bought for my camera and I am happy to report the flash drive is what it claimed to be.

I find it odd that people complain that this is targeted at video applications. BlackMagic Design IS a video company, so that’s exactly the target audience. I love this program, except that it often crashes when you are selecting your target drive. Sometimes it works, and for some reason, sometimes it doesn’t. If you are lost, there is a gear looking button right above the start button, and thats where you select the disk you want to check. Great program, when it works.

SOmetimes it chooses to work, sometimes it doesn’t. When it works its great (other than the app not being resizable and hanging off the bottom of the screen). When it doesn’t work it either gives a fake reason for not being able to run the test on the disk or gives extremely low results that aren’t accurate.

The developers of this app need to redesign it or something. Although the app works as advertised, the interface is way too tall to actually read after tests are taken. This app needs to be made more friendly with the OS X operating system and its design characteristics. It looks like a Windows app.

Works, once I read the review/note about having to set permissions on the drive being tested. Since this is profoundly non-intuitive, there should be a note in the “this drive is read-only" alert dialog that explains how to get past this error.

The graphical interface is some wierd custom job, so it has a huge transparent border surrounding it that isn’t so transparent in the latest OS X. It’s distracting, and wreaks of a non-native app. For such a huge interface, it doesn’t tell you a lot of useful information. You don’t even know when the test will end, or how far it has progressed. To top it off, the interface is super wonky, and you have to sort of figure it out. That being said, it appears to work, and is an accurate measurement of drive speed. But if you can’t trust the interface, and the wonkiness, can you be sure the app itself isn’t leaving junk data all over the place as part of its testing? NO evidence of this, but it makes you worry. No app should make you worry. Skip this and get a tool from a more reputable software developer.