On the test
bench today is a speedy little black box called the OCZ Vertex 3. If you haven't spoiled your computer yet with a Solid State Drive (SSD) yet, now's the time -- SSDs have never been more affordable! 89% Rating:
CrystalDiskMark is a drive benchmark tool which conducts a
series of Sequential, 512K and 4K read and write tests.
100MB
test
The OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD scores 489MB/s in the 100MB
Sequential Read test, 312.5MB/s in the Write test of CrystalDiskMark. Next up,
AS SSD results...
The AS
SSD benchmark determines the performance of Solid State Drives (SSD). AS SSD
benchmark is made specifically to test SSD performance. It is a synthetic
benchmark that gauges bandwidth and latency speeds for solid state disks. Higher
bandwidth (MB/s) is better, lower latencies (ms) are better.
AS SSD Benchmark 1.6.4013 - Read/Write
Read Sequential (MB/s)
Points
Ranking
Crucial M4 256GB SSD
321.3
SanDisk Etreme 240GB SSD
500.01
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD
506.43
OCZ Vertex 2 128GB SSD
203.57
Plextor PX-128M1S SSD
161.1
Write Sequential (MB/s)
Points
Ranking
Crucial M4 256GB SSD
278.9
SanDisk Etreme 240GB SSD
273.41
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD
288.79
OCZ Vertex 2 128GB SSD
130.8
Plextor PX-128M1S SSD
88.39
Read 4K (MB/s)
Points
Ranking
Crucial M4 256GB SSD
18.41
SanDisk Etreme 240GB SSD
20.88
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD
21.9
OCZ Vertex 2 128GB SSD
20.28
Plextor PX-128M1S SSD
11.01
Write 4K (MB/s)
Points
Ranking
Crucial M4 256GB SSD
59.2
SanDisk Etreme 240GB SSD
67.79
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD
66.71
OCZ Vertex 2 128GB SSD
53.61
Plextor PX-128M1S SSD
5.3
Read 4k-64Thrd (MB/s)
Points
Ranking
Crucial M4 256GB SSD
23.47
SanDisk Etreme 240GB SSD
201.18
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB
SSD
186.49
OCZ Vertex 2 128GB SSD
118.96
Plextor PX-128M1S SSD
17.87
Write 4k-64Thrd (MB/s)
Points
Ranking
Crucial M4 256GB SSD
88.52
SanDisk Etreme 240GB SSD
74.16
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB
SSD
232.94
OCZ Vertex 2 128GB SSD
90.58
Plextor PX-128M1S SSD
6.8
Read Acc. Time (ms)
Points
Ranking
Crucial M4 256GB SSD
0.067
SanDisk Etreme 240GB SSD
0.114
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB
SSD
0.138
OCZ Vertex 2 128GB SSD
0.204
Plextor PX-128M1S SSD
0.359
Write Acc. Time (ms)
Points
Ranking
Crucial M4 256GB SSD
0.516
SanDisk Etreme 240GB SSD
0.222
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB
SSD
0.211
OCZ Vertex 2 128GB SSD
0.273
Plextor PX-128M1S SSD
0.736
The OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD achieves a score of 506.4MB/s
Read and 288.8MB/s Write in the Sequential test of AS SSD. These results are
quite competitive against the SanDisk Extreme SSD PCSTATS recently tested, as you can
see from the chart above. The SATA II Plextor SSD is significantly out gunned.
CrystalDiskMark
Benchmark
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