SSD Performance HD Tune PRO

HD Tune Pro 4.5

HD Tune Pro is a hard disk utility and benchmarking utility for Windows. This tiny application allows you to scan your hard drives for errors or take a deeper look at several performance figures coming from the storage unit.

First off, a file test. We fire off 64 MB of data comprising out of sizes ranging from 0.5 KB to 8 MB. Check it out. As you can see once we pass 16 KB file size, the drive kicks in hard, we see however a small dip at 64KB. We noticed that with Atto as well. Maximum peak writes are passing 500 MB/sec write while touching 525 MB read peaks.

In HDTune above we average out roughly 332 MB/sec on sequential reads. That's a little so-so. Barefoot controllers do seem to have a genuine dislike for the HDTune Read test.  But writes on the other hand ....

Write performance above then, once we start to measure write performance we see that figures reach a continued write performance, averaging out at an average of 429 MB/sec.

HD Tune Pro allows random access read and write testing, a feature not available in other software tools. Check out the 1 MB READ performance topping 506 MB/sec. That is very nice.

Overall remarkable write IOPS performance as well. We get 473MB/sec on the 1 MB files. So each second this drive can write say 395 JPEG files with a size of 1 MB, per second.