SUPER TALENT RAIDDRIVE GS 256GB
RRP: $2299.99 | Website: http://www.supertalent.com/products/ssd_category_detail.php?type=RAIDDrive
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Intel Core i7 980X
Gigabyte X58-UD7 (rev1.0)
NVIDIA Geforce GTX460
OCZ Agility II 60GB SSD
Thermaltake Toughpower 1.5KW
Windows 7 64-Bit
J
ust about every traditional
memory manufacturer has
take or at least tried to take
advantage of the popularity of
SSDs. Some obviously more
successful than others but
for the most part it’s hard to
find a truly disappoint SSD
these days. As fast as they
are, for some even more
speed is required and this is
where drives like the SUPER
TALENT RAID DRIVEs come
in as they really do deliver
some impressive read/write
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numbers. They aren’t cheap,
but they are pretty unmatched
when it comes to reading and
writing vast amounts of data at
incredible speeds. What follows
is our experience with the drive.
Analysis
We ran the benchmarks a
number of times to confirm
that we were getting reliable
and consistent numbers and
indeed these was what we
ended up with. We omitted PC
Mark05 numbers but it’s worth
mentioning that the only place
where the drive performed
better was in the Virus
Scan test where it recorded
an impressive 397MB/sec
compared to 195MB/sec of the
Corsair Drive. The rest of the
results had the Corsair drive in
the lead in that benchmark.
HDTune results were by
far the highlight of the drive
delivering some huge numbers
to say the least, at more than
twice the speed of the Corsair
drive in both sequential reads
and writes. However this was
expected and in a way this is
what the drive is really about.
Massive amounts of data
throughput over everything
else. The Total IOPS results
were relatively high especially
against the Corsair drive which
is what we used as reference
drive representing a modern
SSD. Once again the Super
Talent drive produced results
twice as fast (at the least)
to our reference drive apart
from in the IOMETER’s Total
MB/sec test where it scored