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Quick Tip: Checking disk, CPU, memory performance in Windows

Windows has a built in too named “Windows System Assessment Tool” or Winsat which is not known to many. This can help you run a quick test to check performance of cpu, memory, disk etc. This quick tip does not explore all options available for this tool but gives a few quick options.

To check disk performance of a local drive, SD Card, USB pen drive run the following command against the drive.

winsat disk -drive d 

If you want more details you can use the “-v” switch. Help for the tool is available with the /?

To assess the performance of memory and cpu you can use the options as shown below