A hard drive optimization function is provided to the set-up utility of the basic input/output service (BIOS) of a computer system. When executed, the optimization function benchmarks the hard drive's overall performance with sequential accesses for a number of transfer block sizes, employing various...http://www.google.de/patents/US6678812?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6678812 - Method and apparatus for optimizing hard drive performance
