SanDisk SSD PLUS 240 GiB Review

Compressible Data Test

As you will have gathered from the previous page, we measured the performance of each drive using CrystalDiskMark.
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.
First, we set CrystalDiskMark to “All 0x00 Fill mode” to evaluate the performance of the SSD when dealing with compressible data.

On the sequential read benchmark, the SSD PLUS obtained similar performance to the other drives.

On the sequential write benchmark, however, the SSD PLUS performed similarly to the BX100, but was 27% slower than the Neutron XT.

On the read test with 512 kiB blocks, the SanDisk model was 5% slower than the Crucial BX100 and 35% slower than the Neutron XT.

On the write test with 512 kiB blocks, the SSD PLUS was 5% slower than the BX100, and 27% slower than the Corsair Neutron XT.

On the random read test with 4 kiB blocks, the SanDisk SSD PLUS was 25% slower than the Crucial model, and 84% slower than the Corsair Neutron XT.

On the random write test with 4 kiB blocks, the SSD PLUS was 5% faster than the BX100, and presented the same performance of the Neutron XT.

On the random read test with 4 kiB blocks and queue depth of 32, the SanDisk drive was 33% slower than the Crucial BX100, and 61% slower than the Corsair Neutron XT.

On the random write test with 4 kiB blocks and queue depth of 32, the SSD PLUS was 19% faster than the BX100, and 8% slower than the Neutron XT.