SiSoft Sandra 2005 |
Source:Sandra |
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Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of
a complete system as well as the individual components. The results are also
purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.
| Sisoft Sandra
2005 Storage Benchmark Results |
| Drives |
Drive Index: |
Random Read: |
Sequential Read: |
Random Write: |
Sequential Write: |
Average Access time: |
| 1GB OCZ Rally USB Drive |
22 |
24 |
25 |
12 |
17 |
1 |
| 12GB IBM TravelStar Notebook HDD |
10 |
10 |
11 |
8 |
10 |
15 |
| 8GB Super Talent IDE Flash Drive |
12 |
13 |
13 |
6 |
6 |
1 |
|
Units: |
MB/s |
MB/s |
MB/s |
MB/s |
MB/s |
milliseconds |
The 8GB SuperTalent IDE Flash Drive matches up pretty well
against the 12GB IBM Travelstar Notebook HDD. Access times are very quick with
both flash memory drives (the OCZ is used for comparison to see how flash
memory stands up to flash memory) but we're a bit surprised to
see bandwidth was on the low side. DMA was enabled and the latest nForce drivers
were installed on the test platform based on a Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF 6150) motherboard.
HD Tach is a physical performance hard drive test for Windows 95/98/ME and
Windows NT/2000. In Windows 9X/ME it uses a special kernel mode VXD to get
maximum accuracy by bypassing the file system. A similar mechanism is used in
Windows NT/2000/XP. HD Tach reads from areas all over the hard drive and reports
an average speed. It also logs the read speeds to a text file that you can load
into a spreadsheet and graph to visually read the results of the test.
|
Hard Drive Tach 3.0.1.0
- Benchmark Results |
|
Physical Drive Size |
Access Time |
Read Burst Speed |
Read Speed Max |
Read Speed Min |
Read
speed
Avg |
CPU utilization |
| 1GB OCZ Rally USB Drive |
1GB |
2.3 |
26.3 |
26 |
24 |
24.3 |
4 |
| 12GB IBM TravelStar Notebook HDD |
12GB |
19.7 |
33 |
13.5 |
8.2 |
10.8 |
2 |
| 8GB Super Talent IDE Flash Drive |
8GB |
0.6 |
14.2 |
14 |
13 |
13.5 |
0 |
|
Units: |
|
ms |
MB/s |
MB/s |
MB/s |
MB/s |
% |
In HD Tach we see that access time again is very quick for the flash
memory hard drives, however bandwidth is a bit on the low side. It's interesting to
see that bandwidth from the flash memory drives is very steady and does not
fluctuate from test to test.
So where does all this leave us, is the 8GB Supertalent FIDE Flash
Drive a good replacement for IDE notebook hard drives?
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