Read Bandwidth
For this benchmark, HD Tune Pro was used. It shows the potential read speed which you are likely to experience with these storage devices. We don’t put much stock in Burst speed readings and thus we no longer included it. The most important number is the Average Speed number. This number will tell you what to expect from a given drive in normal, day to day operations. The higher the average the faster your entire system will seem.
Write Performance
For this benchmark HD Tune Pro was used. To run the write benchmark on a drive, you must first remove all partitions from that drive and then and only then will it allow you to run this test. Unlike some other benchmarking utilities the HD Tune Pro writes across the full area of the drive, thus it easily shows any weakness a drive may have.
As this is a modern SATA/AHCI based solid state drive these numbers are right in the ballpark for what you expect a drive to act like. In other words, water is wet, the sky is blue, and if you want even more speed – which few will ever be able to properly harness – you will need to look at NVMe based drives.
