Then again, if you have a mechanical HDD in there that is as slow as my wife's, then anything solid state would perform better than that thing. Encrypted data is presented to the HDD/SSD as incompressible data so if you are in charge of 500 notebooks and are looking for a SSD to use in all of them, a drive that performs poorly with incompressible data (such as this one), isn't the best choice. She has to deal with health care reform for a large international health care provider so you can imagine the massive number of documents floating around on her encrypted hard drive. My wife doesn't work with images at all, but has thousands of documents in both Word and PDF. There are over 300 reviews kept on this notebook in the Completed Reviews folder, another 15 or so in the Pending Reviews folder and several thousand images. With my work I keep a lot of product images, PDF files and Word Docs like the one I'm writing this review in. I also captured my wife's work notebook to examine her files as well. I keep a notebook around that is used just for work and after examining the files on it, I can see a big difference between the work notebook and my play notebook. The workload is quite a bit different than what enthusiasts put their drives through.Īs an enthusiast I work with a lot of media files for myself and my family. We have to change some of our thinking when looking at a drive designed and marketed towards business users. In addition to the calculated values which are shown in MB/s, they are also represented in IO per seconds (IOPS). At the end of the tests three values for the read and write as well as the overall performance will be issued. ![]() The write access test is only to be met with a 1 GB big test file. ![]() AS can also determine the access time of the SSD, the access of which the drive is determined to read through the entire capacity of the SSD (Full Stroke). In all synthetic tests the test file size is 1GB. These tests are carried out without the use of the operating system caches. The synthetic tests are to determine the sequential and random read and write performance of the SSD. The tool contains four synthetic as well as three practice tests. Product Homepage: Alex Intelligent SoftwareĪS determines the performance of Solid State Drives (SSD). Benchmarks - AS SSD AS SSD Benchmarkĭeveloper Homepage: Alex Intelligent Software There is a very large loss of performance, but let's finish the standard testing and then discuss everything in the conclusion. We aren't going to play up the decline in performance when dealing with multimedia files since this is a business specific drive, but we can't shy away from the loss of performance when data is present. The asynchronous flash drives with SandForce SF-2281 controllers slow down quite a bit more than the synchronous flash drives when both are filled to 50% of capacity. SSDs also need time to recover, either with TRIM or onboard garbage collection methods. The purpose of the Drives with Data testing is to show how a drive performs in these 'dirty' states. SSDs perform differently when used for a period of time and when data is already present on the drive. You will be able to perform this test at home with the files provided in the article - full instructions are included. Benchmarks - PCMark Vantage - Drives with Data Testingįor a complete breakdown on the Drives with Data Testing please read this article. Let's move over to testing the drive with data on it before we conclude the real-world performance. Here we see the V+ 200 in an empty state and the performance is very good. I would much rather have 3.3.2 on my drive. V5 gives a little better performance, but the TRIM issue introduces other issues. SandForce has released FW 5 to manufactures, but we found an issue with TRIM. Our drive shipped with firmware 3.3.2 which is a high performance tune. For most users these are the tests that matter since many of the old hat ways to measure performance have become ineffective to measure true Windows performance. Windows users can count on Vantage to show them how a drive will perform in normal day to day usage scenarios. ![]() PCMark Vantage is easy enough for even the most casual enthusiast to use yet supports in-depth, professional industry grade testing.įutureMark has developed a good set of hard disk tests for their PCMark Vantage Suite. Regardless of whether the benchmarker is an artist or an IT Professional, PCMark Vantage shows the user where their system soars or falls flat, and how to get the most performance possible out of their hardware. PCMark Vantage is perfectly suited for benchmarking any type of Microsoft Windows Vista PC from multimedia home entertainment systems and laptops to dedicated workstations and high-end gaming rigs. PCMark Vantage is the first objective hardware performance benchmark for PCs running 32 and 64 bit versions of Microsoft Windows Vista.
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