Toshiba 2.5-inch 1TB Solid State Hybrid Drive Review

AIDA64 Storage

AIDA64 Extreme Edition is a streamlined Windows diagnostic and benchmarking software for home users. AIDA64 Extreme Edition provides a wide range of features to assist in overclocking, hardware error diagnosis, stress testing, and sensor monitoring. It has unique capabilities to assess the performance of the processor, system memory, and disk drives. AIDA64 is compatible with all current 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows operating systems, including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

Since I’ve just brought AIDA64 back into rotation, I’m interested in hearing your feedback on which of the tests are relevant to you. For now I’ve chose to include almost all below, to give you the best results on this drive.

Average Drive Access Times

Buffered Read Performance

Linear Drive Performance

Random Drive Performance

Random Write and Verify Performance

The Toshiba Hybrid drive gives us some great performance up to 190 MB/s when reading, well above those of normal hard disk drives. Of course these speeds can’t match a pure Solid State Drive, but that’s not the intention. The drive also shows great and steady performance in the linear tests.