<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
      type="topic" style="task"
      id="disk-benchmark">
  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="disk"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.2" date="2011-10-07" status="candidate"/>
    
    <credit type="author">
      <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
      <email>gnome-doc-list@gnome.org</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Natalia Ruz Leiva</name>
      <email>nruz@alumnos.inf.utfsm.cl</email>
    </credit>

    <desc>Run benchmarks on your hard disk to check how fast it is.</desc>
    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
  </info>

<title>Test the performance of your hard disk</title>

  <p>To test the speed of your hard disk:</p>

<steps>

 <item>
  <p>Open the <app>Disk Utility</app> application from the <gui>Activities</gui>
  overview.</p>
 </item>
 <item>
  <p>Choose the hard disk from the <gui>Storage Devices</gui> list. Information
  about the disk and its status will appear under  <gui>Drive</gui>.</p></item>
 <item>
  <p>Choose <gui>Benchmark</gui>.</p>
 </item>
 <item>
  <p>Click <gui>Start Read-Only Benchmark</gui> to test how fast data can be
  read from the disk or <gui>Start Read/Write Benchmark</gui> to test how fast
  data can be read from and written to the disk.  The latter option will take
  longer to complete.</p>
 </item>

</steps> 

  <p>When the test is finished, the results will appear on the graph.</p>

 <comment>
  <p>It would be really really great if somebody could write something about the
  results and the charts, I can't do that... I don't really know what does it
  mean. thanks.</p>
 </comment>

</page>
