SSD Performance HD Tune PRO

HD Tune Pro

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

In HDTube we average out roughly 211MB/sec, okay performance, you'll agree with me, but not up-to par to what you'd expect. It's a little relative to this test though. Your Average HDD would do 45-65 MB/sec here, with a WD VelociRaptor topping is off just over 100~120 MB/sec.

Write performance is shoddier, we know that the 34nm NAND memory is slightly slower. Once we start to measure write performance we see figures reach a continued write performance averaging out at roughly 167 MB/sec. Again a little bit on the low side for a SF1200 product. We see this behavior a lot on SandForce based products in this test suite.

The latest edition of HD Tune Pro allows random access read and write testing, a feature not available in other software tools. And this is certainly interesting to observe as that is just lovely performance.

Overall good write IOPS performance. We get 25MB/sec on 4KB files returned. Could be a tad better, but not bad.