PNY XLR8 120 GiB SSD Review
Compressible Data Test
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As you will have gathered from the previous page, we measured the performance of each drive using two different programs: CrystalDiskMark and Iometer.
It is important to note that we connected the SSDs to a SATA-600 port on our motherboard rather than a SATA-300 port, which could cause performance limitations.
We set CrystalDiskMark to “All 0x00 Fill mode” to evaluate the performance of the SSD when dealing with compressible data.
In the sequential read and in the sequential write test, both units presented the same performance level.
In both read and write tests using 512 kiB blocks, the PNY XLR8 120 GiB showed similar performance level as the SSDNow V300 120 GiB.
In the random read test using 4 kiB blocks, the PNY XLR8 120 GiB was 12% slower than the SSDNow V300. In the random write test with 4 kiB blocks, the XLR8 was 9% slower than the V300.