Seagate 600 480 GB vs. Kingston HyperX 3K 480 GB 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 test, the Seagate 600 was 4% faster than the Kingston HyperX 3K. The Seagate 600 also performed 9% better in the sequential write test.
Moving on to the random read test using 512 kiB blocks, the Kingston HyperX 3K offered the best performance, beating the Seagate 600 by 20 percent. However, in the random write test using 512 kiB blocks, the Seagate 600 beat the Kingston HyperX 3K by 21 percent.
In the random read test using 4 kiB blocks, the Kingston HyperX 3K beat the Seagate 600 by 23 percent. However, in the random write test using 4 kiB blocks, the Seagate 600 beat the Kingston HyperX 3K by a margin of 208 percent.