Patriot WildFire 120GB SSD review

Memory (DDR4/DDR5) and Storage (SSD/NVMe) 367 Page 15 of 17 Published by

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SSD Performance HD Tach 3.0.4.0

 

HD Tach

HD Tach is a physical performance hard drive test that uses a special kernel mode VXD to get maximum accuracy by bypassing the file system.

When we look at write performance we see 253 MB/sec in this test, and that's fast but definitely an average for this test series as we expected much faster performance here.

In addition to sequential read performance, HD Tach tests the drive's random access time. Random access is the true measure of seek speed. Many drives advertise sub 10 millisecond seek speeds, but seek speeds are misleading. Also again, without a physical head that moves around, the SSDs are just so fast as they have no mechanical moving parts. Here obviously, the smaller the number is, the better. In this case, 0.1 ms.

The Burst speed measured in HD Tach was 339 MB/sec by the way.

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