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Crystalmark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using V3.0 x64.
Pretty average results for a last generation Solid State drive.
Performance is sadly lacking when compared against the leading drives released this year. Not that we are that surprised as the unit is using a last generation SandForce controller.
We then retested with the alternative ‘compressible’ setting called 0×00 fill.
Results improve significantly, especially sequential write performance, which jumps from 60 MB/s to just over 250 MB/s. 512k write performance also receives a huge throughput increase to almost 235 MB/s.
Above, we show some comparison results from the latest Solid State Drives released this year with the new Sandforce controller. This controller is really dated.
