Sapphire EDGE VS8 Barebones Model Review (8GB/SSD)

Crystalmark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using V3.0 x64. We will compare the Samsung 840 Series 120GB drive we installed against the onboard 500 GB 2.5 inch drive which Sapphire normally include in the EDGE VS8 unit.

Above, the miserable kind of performance you could expect from the 2.5 inch 5,400 rpm 500GB Western Digital drive with 8MB of cache.

Above, there is clearly nothing wrong with the SATA 3Gbps controller on the EDGE VS8 – peaking at around 440MB/s throughput on sequential read. This particular Samsung drive is a budget model so write performance is a little worse than we would expect from a Sandforce 2281 unit for example, but as the results show it is equally impressive with both incompressible and compressible data.

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Above, the difference between the two drives is massive and verifies the findings with CrystalDiskMark previously. In the real world, the EDGE VS8 feels like a completely different machine with the SSD inside.

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