In this test, the Falcon runs a fairly flat line on the read results, and the writes are very fast but they do exhibit some mild spikes over the course of the test. The average read and write speeds are not exactly the same as the ATTO tests, but as we mentioned, it's best to take absolute numbers with a grain of salt when testing an SSD on tests that were primarily designed for mechanical hard drives. Regardless, we see a clear trend that the Falcon is posting some stunning performance numbers.

Perhaps more important with Solid State Drives is their performance ability (or lack thereof) for random accesses for various file sizes, particularly small files. Frankly, this is where SSD are made or broken in terms of performance. We'll have a few more tests for random access, but HDTune's random access tests are the first we'll examine.

Here we see that the Falcon handles the random access tests without any problems, keeping the scatter graph down at the bottom, below the 10ms mark. Very nice. More importantly is the small file (4KB) average write write speed, showing above 48 MB/s, and this is an outstanding result. The access times are still extremely quick with small files as well, so the indications so far are no stuttering issues are apparent.