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 64MB of data comprising out of sizes ranging from 0,5 KB to 8 MB. Check it out. As you can see once we pass 32KB file size, the drive kicks in hard, already pushing over 250MB/sec. Maximum peak writes are nearing 500 MB/sec write while touching 525 MB read peaks, this is impressive already.

And sure, for a non RAID storage unit that's just sick.

In HDTune we average out roughly 333MB/sec on sequential writes. We peak to roughly 352 MB/sec, that is an immense task and test alright.

Write performance, once we start to measure write performance we see that figures reach a continued write performance, averaging out at an average of 284 MB/sec with peaks to 345 MB/sec.

HD Tune Pro allows random access read and write testing, a feature not available in other software tools. Check out the 1MB READ performance topping 435 MB/sec. In bold comparison, a fast OCZ Vertex 2 SSD would push 260 MB/sec at 1MB tranfers here.

Overall great write IOPS performance as well. We get 43 MB/sec on 4KB files returned which is quite okay. Once we go larger in file-size and look at 1 MB performance, things pick up quickly again as we start to peak to 317 MB/sec.

Think about it, each second this drive can write 317 files with a size of 1 MB ... each second.