128 GB Solid State Drive Round-Up

CrystalDiskMark

As you could see in the previous page, we measured performance using three different programs, CrystalDiskMark, DiskSpeed32 and HD Tune.  On this page we will analyze the results provided by CrystalDiskMark, while in the next pages we will discuss the results brought by the other two programs.

It is important to note that we connected the SSDs to the motherboard SATA-600 port, to make sure performance wouldn’t be limited by the use of a SATA-300 port.

We left this program with its default configuration, meaning it benchmarked each SSD using five simultaneous threads using a file size of 100 MB. Let’s see the results.

On sequential read Intel X25-M and Corsair Nova achieved the same performance level, being the fastest units under this tests. They were around 6% faster than Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue and Kingston SSDNow V Series, 15% faster than Crucial CT128M255, 16% faster than Mushkin Io and 18% faster than Patriot Torqx.

As for sequential write, Corsair Nova continued being the fastest unit, while Intel X25-M dropped to be the worst unit. Here Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue, Mushkin Io, Patriot Torqx and Crucial CT128M255 achieved the same performance level and were, on average, 61% faster than Kingston SSDNow V Series and Intel X-25M. The performance from Corsair Nova was impressive: it was 28% faster than the units from the first group and 107% faster than the units from the second group.

On random read using 512 KB blocks, Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue was the fastest un
it, being 14% faster than Corsair Nova, 16% faster than Kingston SSDNow V Series, 28% faster than Intel X-25M and 36% faster than Patriot Torqx, Crucial CT128M255 and Mushkin Io.

On random write using 512 KB blocks Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue and Corsair Nova achieved the same performance level, being the fastest units. They were, on average, 18% faster than Patriot Torqx, Mushkin Io and Crucial CT128M255, 72% faster than Intel X-25M and 90% faster than Kingston SSDNow V Series.

On random read using very small blocks (4 KB), Corsair Nova was the fastest unit, being 25% faster than Mushkin Io, 27% faster than Crucial CT128M255 and Patriot Torqx, 53% faster than Intel X-25M, 93% faster than Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue and 140% faster than Kingston SSDNow V Series.

On random write using very small blocks (4 KB) Intel X-25M was the fastest unit, being 144% faster than Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue, 313% faster than Kingston SSDNow V Series, 340% faster than Patriot Torqx, 348% faster than Mushkin Io, 356% faster than Crucial CT128M255 and 555% faster than Corsair Nova.