Benchmarks
All results were obtained at 4600MHz s on a normal install of Windows 7 64-bit. These are our results, yours may vary so only
use these as a guideline for a similarly configured system
Drive
Average Read
Average Write
IO Meter IOPS
4K Write
Average IO Respone
Max IO Response Time
Plextor M3 256GB SSD
499.1
360.6
27060.1
268.8
0.2955
8.9941
Patriot Pyro SE 240GB
506.6
311.5
18482.2
262.1
0.4327
50.5731
Intel 520 240GB SSD
475.6
310.5
21603.1
258.2
0.3701
41.171
Kingston 240GB
HyperX SSD
504.1
303.6
18325.6
205.2
0.4363
41.9811
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB
504.1
303
18128.8
237.9
0.4411
44.379
ever tested before, easily
besting the OCZ Vertex 3
Max IOPS drive by almost
10,000 IO/s. Once again truly
impressive but by this time we
were expecting nothing less.
The results would continue
like this with the M3 offering
performance vastly superior
to anything we’d seen before.
The final noteworthy
score falling to the Max IO
response time result. At just
8.994 seconds it’s more than
four times as fast as our
previous best by the Corsair
ForceGT drive. This was
easily the most impressive
result of the lot cementing
the Plextor M3 as our new
favourite drive. From an SSD
we had very low expectations
of to one that we doubt will
be easily toppled in the
near future, the M3 was a
pleasant surprise indeed.
So then what makes this
drive tick you may ask, well,
it’ll be pretty obvious that this
isn’t a Sand-Force controlled
SSD at all. Instead, inside the
brushed metal c