EFD Software's HD Tune is described on the company's web site as such:
"HD Tune is a hard disk utility with many functions. It can be used to measure the drive's performance, scan for errors, check the health status (S.M.A.R.T.), securely erase all data and much more." The latest version of the benchmark added temperature statistics and improved support for SSDs, among a few other updates and fixes.
The Intel SSD 600P offered middling performance in the HD Tune bandwidth tests. Access times weren't great, though. In the write test access times were competitive, but in the read test, the 600P trailed the other drives we tested.
