HD Tach has been around for a long time and is excellent when it comes to testing hard drive performance. It is also a very handy program when it comes to testing the controller used on particular motherboards. Tests such as Read, CPU Utilization and Burst are available at a click of the button and give you a good idea of how the hard drive can perform from system to system.
Here we see again that the Raptor X takes the lead. Even with its lower host transfer speed, it is able to remove the Seagate 7200.9 with its SATA 2.5 specs from the top of the crowd.
