HDD/SSD Benchmarks

[Josh Weston]

So, as I was helping my friend with his laptop, I made him install a piece of software which scans for bad sectors. Turns out, he has hundreds of the things, but that's not what interested me most. The software had an option to run benchmarks on the drive; how could I resist?

So far, I've only ran it on my laptop, but here are the results:

Not too bad, for an ageing 2.5" drive.

Shall follow up with the results from my SSDs in RAID0.

I'm just interested to see how everyone fares, and how the drives actually stack up to their apparent speeds.

Click here to download the software.

 

[jamesriley94]

No idea what this shows but this is my laptop's M4 - running on SATA2 (I think)

 

[Josh Weston]

It shows that you live in Arctic conditions, or that your SSDs temperature sensor is a little off.
It also shows that your M4 is a damn site faster than my laptop's HDD

 

[PapaSmurf6768]

Dat Vertex 4

 

[Josh Weston]

At first, everything looks great for my SSDs:

Until I ran the same test as 'Smurf:

Damn. That Vertex 4 is fast. Would be interested to see how M4s/830s stack up here, with Smurf's test.

 

[PapaSmurf6768]

Well, here's an 830:

And here's an M4:

I didn't buy a V4 for nothing ya know...

 

[Josh Weston]

God damn. Ok, for your next trick, Intel 520?
I would still favour the 830 from your results, as I care more for reads than writes.

 

[PapaSmurf6768]

They're not my results friend, I'm just googling and posting the images

And you can't only look at sequential, you gotta take the other numbers into account too.

 

[Josh Weston]

Aaah, I see. More practical, but less impressive! Thought you had some strange surplus of SSDs lying around.

 

[PapaSmurf6768]

*sigh* I wish...

 

[Curlyriff]

When my Samsung 840 256gb arrives I will run that to compare.

 

[OcSurfer]

fingers crossed my 2x 240 neutron gtx's turn up today then ill post up those!