Benchmarks: File Copy Test

For our 6GB ISO test, nosotros accept a single large file and duplicate it on the disk measuring the time information technology takes using a stopwatch. The test is run 3 times and the average effect is recorded. Generally, all three runs are pretty much identical. The in a higher place graphs show both transfer fourth dimension in seconds and throughput in MB/southward.

We typically find that SandForce based SSDs, such equally the Vertex 2 Pro 100GB, really struggle with this test equally nosotros are working with a large compressed file. As you can see, the Vertex 2 Pro 100GB is no faster than the older Vertex 120GB.

Nevertheless, the OCZ RevoDrive X2 240GB was 3.four times faster than the Vertex two Pro 100GB, taking only 25.7 seconds to consummate. The Samsung 470 Series and Crucial RealSSD C300 stand for the fastest MLC based drives nosotros've tested, and both of took more than twice as long.

The completion time of 25.7 seconds translated to a throughput of 232.4MB/southward, which is staggering compared to the Vertex 2 Pro's 67.4MB/s and even the 114-115MB/s throughput of the Samsung and Crucial drives.

The programme copy exam is comprised of many pocket-size non-compressed files. This is where SSDs often struggle, and early-gen drives have proven to exist slower than traditional hard drives in the past. Our reference Samsung 3.5" desktop hard drive managed to complete the exam in 28 seconds making it a fraction faster than the Seagate Momentus XT 500GB.

The OCZ RevoDrive X2 240GB takes simply 6.one seconds, making it roughly twice as fast as the Samsung and Crucial drives. Compared to the OCZ Vertex 2 Pro 100GB, the RevoDrive X2 240GB was 3.1 times quicker. Again we saw a sustained throughput of 232MB/southward, while the Vertex 2 Pro 100GB managed just 73.7MB/s.

The game copy evaluation is comprised of a mixture of small and big files. The OCZ RevoDrive X2 240GB completed this test in a blistering fast five.1 seconds, once again making it twice as fast equally the Samsung and Crucial SSDs. It was also 3.six times faster than the Vertex two Pro 100GB with a full throughput of 268.9MB/s.