Testing – HDTune Pro
HDTune Pro is one of the most popular hard drive software suites available. It has many different benchmarks and tests built into it. Our first test is the read benchmark, which tests the average read speed and access time of the drive.
Wow now these are some impressive numbers! 287.7MB/s read is the highest score we have ever received on this benchmark! Let’s move on to the Write Benchmark.
Once again very impressive here 189.4MB/s write, that is also our highest score ever! Since the release of HDTune 3.5 there has been a new Random Access test added to the software. This test measures the performance of random read and write operations. Tests are taken in 512b, 4KB, 64KB, 1MB, and random file sizes. The performance of the drive is reported in operations a second (IOPS), average access time and average speed. Here are both the results from the read and write random access tests.
What we look for is the 4K IOPS here. We had very good read scores, but the write scores were a little low. Finally we ran the File Benchmark.
Very impressive results here the benchmark topped off at 350MB/s write and 205MB/s read.