Benchmarks
All results were obtained at 5GHz on a normal install of Windows 7 64-bit and WinXP. 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 Response
Max IO Response Time
Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB
506.4
328.5
19540.7
270.8
0.4092
29.8356
Plextor M3 256GB SSD
499.1
360.6
27060.1
266.6
0.2955
8.9941
Intel 520 240GB SSD
475.6
310.5
21603.1
258.2
0.3701
41.171
Kingston HyperX 240GB
504.1
303.6
18325.6
205.2
0.4363
41.9811
Corsair ForceGT 120GB
469.1
163.1
13993.4
159
0.5715
40.871
one so keep that in mind should
you be swayed by some other
similarly priced alternatives.
What stood out in our own
testing and not represented
here were the OS boot times.
We loaded up two overclocking
partitions of Windows 7 and
Windows XP on this drive and
without question we had the
fastest boot up times we’ve
seen to date. The numbers
would suggest otherwise,
but so phenomenal were the
boot times that at first glance
you’d think that the system
had restart upon attempting
to load the operating system,
only to realize that the entire OS
loading operation had finished.
So while we are swayed entirely
by numbers, this is one case
where the experience differed a
little from the tests performed.
We may in future test OS boot
times because of this and
add them to the results. The
drive internals themselves
are what you’ve grown to be
very familiar with of late. It’s
the standard SandForce 2281
controller paired with Toggle
NAND and as per usual with
SandForce driven SSDs there
is no dedicated cache, so it
has all the pitfalls and boons
associated with many other
drives which use a similar
configuration. So there’s
very little remarkable in the
drive electronics and we can
only attribute the enhanced
performance to the tweaking
firmware side. That doesn’t
mean we don’t appreciate the
performance gains though.
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