According to the HDTune manual, "Both read and write transfer rate can be measured. To prevent accidental data loss, the write test can only be performed on a disk with no partitions."
That's using the Benchmark settings, or must I use the file benchmarks instead?
Anyway, I proceeded to use the File Benchmarks. Here are the results:
Drive Temp 34°C, CPU 9.2%
100 MB of Data (Using default settings)
Sequential Read: 29205 KB/s Write: 3889 KB/s
4 KB Random single 85 IOPS 66 IOPS
4 KB random multi 159 IOPS 142 IOPS
500 MB of Data (using default settings)
Sequential Read: 28988 KB/s Write: 3858 KB/s
4 KB Random single 77 IOPS 79 IOPS
4 KB random multi 145 IOPS 143 IOPS
1000 MB of Data (using default settings)
Sequential Read: 23612 KB/s Write: 4345 KB/s
4 KB Random single 73 IOPS 71 IOPS
4 KB random multi 130 IOPS 138 IOPS
There you have it. Your thoughts.