128 GB Solid State Drive Round-Up

DiskSpeed32

Let’s now see the results from DiskSpeed32, which measures performance on a different way, sequentially reading all sectors from the storage device.

First, let’s take a look at the burst transfer rate results. This result shows the maximum transfer rate between the SATA port on the motherboard and the controller inside the SSD.

Here Corsair Nova was the fastest drive, being 8% faster, on average, than Patriot Torqx, Crucial CT128M255 and Mushkin Io, 28% faster than Intel X-25M, 45% faster than Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue and 72% faster than Kingston SSDNow V Series.

But the most import result is the average transfer rate. Here the winner was Intel X-25M: it was, on average, 24% faster than Kingston SSDNow V Series and Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue, and 32% faster than Mushkin Io, Patriot Torqx, Crucial CT128M255 and Corsair Nova. The units from the first group were, on average, 6% faster than the units from the second group.

On the maximum transfer rate results, Intel X25-M was the fastest SSD, being 19% faster than Corsair Nova, 27% faster than Kingston SSDNow V Series and Wester Digital SiliconEdge Blue and 32% faster than Mushkin Io, Crucial CT128M255 and Patriot Torqx.

On the minimum transfer rate results, Intel X25-M achieved the best result, being 20% faster than Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue, 25% faster than Kingston SSDNow V Series, 37% faster than Corsair Nova and Patriot Torqx, 38% faster than Mushkin Io and 43% faster than Crucial CT128M255.