HDtach: only measures sustained reads right?

HDtach is the only benching program I've used for my HDD's over
the years.

As far as comparing the performance of SSD's to my HDD's using
HDtach's stats, I would be interested in the sustained read performance
of SSD's right?

I've noticed the random read/random write performance of SSD's
is pretty abysmal, but wouldn't HDD's been even worse?

It's impossible for any HDD to match the performance of any
SSD right (outside of a RAID array of some type)?

HDtach = HARD DRIVE tach. That said, I can't recall if HDTune, or HDTach was updated to work with SSDs, LOL! One of them was, but not sure which.

Use ATTO to check your SSD's speeds properly (to match the MFG results). Also you can use Crystal Disk Mark. Feel free to look at our SSD reviews to see what else we use.

Yes, HDD's would be worse.

Impossible is such a strong word... but yeah they shouldn't be close.

HDtach benches my Windows XP RAMdisk (Asrock Xfast Ram utility) just fine.

Good to know...?

Techreport used to use HDtach for benching SSD's, which gave
some weird results for a Corsair SSD (I think it was a Force LS)
-- making it look a lot better than it does in any other benchmark.
Why it does this I don't know, because I believe HDTach shows the
data points it uses to calculate the final read/write average speeds.

Perhaps that is one that gives the wonky readings on SSD s I was talking about.

Your lines/paragraphs are broken and jacked up still...please report this in the forum feedback thread with details in EXACTLY what you (and you alone curiously) are doing to get such disjointed looking posts...