Summary
Benchmarks
We used a traditional benchmark such as HDTUNE but included our favourite “IOMeter”.
IOMeter measures IOPS (Input Output Per Second) at different user configuration
settings. We completed a set number of sequential and random tests to give a true
indication of the performance on this drive.
Notes
Benchmark
Result
Corsair Nova 128GB SSD
Corsair Force 100GB SSD
HDTUNE read avg.
HDTUNE read avg.
208.4 MB/s
238.2 MB/s
Corsair Nova 128GB SSD
Corsair Force 100GB SSD
HDTUNE write avg.
HDTUNE write avg.
154.8 MB/s
226.0 MB/s
Corsair Nova 128GB SSD
Corsair Force 100GB SSD
IOMETER 512B RR
IOMETER 512B RR
13686 IOPS
12129 IOPS
Random Read
Random Read
Corsair Nova 128GB SSD
Corsair Force 100GB SSD
IOMETER 512B RW
IOMETER 512B RW
2319 IOPS
11136 IOPS
Random Write
Random Write
Corsair Nova 128GB SSD
Corsair Force 100GB SSD
IOMETER 512B SR
IOMETER 512B SR
24814 IOPS
16675 IOPS
Sequential Read
Sequential Read
Corsair Nova 128GB SSD
Corsair Force 100GB SSD
IOMETER 512B SW
IOMETER 512B SW
5530 IOPS
26769 IOPS
Sequential Write
Sequential Write
Corsair Nova 128GB SSD
Corsair Force 100GB SSD
IOMETER 4K SR
IOMETER 4K SR
13809 IOPS
15382 IOPS
Sequential Read
Sequential Read
Corsair Nova 128GB SSD
Corsair Force 100GB SSD
IOMETER 4K RR
IOMETER 4K RR
8719 IOPS
10532 IOPS
Random Read
Random Read
Drive
sequential write result that the
Force dominates.
As sequential writes are
fairly common types of hard
drive operations, such as
copying a large file from one
place to another these results
are of paramount importance.
An even more common
operation would be a random
read or write operation.
Random operations mimic your
everyday computer usage, with
lots of little read and writes
to different parts of your disk
as you work on a number of
operations simultaneously.
Looking across both random
read results we saw two
different results, where the
Nova seemed slightly better
at 512b reads while the Force
better at 4K reads. This boils
down to a difference in how
the controllers on both disks
are optimized, with the Force
better at 4K reads and for most
operations a better drive for it.
Perhaps for a database with a
huge number of read operations
you might want to consider a
Nova disk over the Force, but
for daily usage a Force disk has
quite a few more advantage not
limited to the sequential write
and random write operations
better handled by the Sandforce
controller. We saw gains of
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