64GB SSD on the Desktop: Samsung and OCZ go mainstream
by Gary Key on May 15, 2008 11:30 PM EST- Posted in
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Vantage Testing, Cont'd
The Samsung/OCZ drive generates incredible scores in the PCMark Vantage tests that simulate real-world performance patterns utilizing a variety of actual applications. We added in our Mtron Pro SSD 32GB drive as a comparison to another high performance SSD drive. While PCMark Vantage utilizes actual applications for testing, the HD test provides a pure performance look at the hard drive or controller tested.
Like our previous testing with IPEAK, the results show the capabilities of the hard drive without the platform penalty. In other words, these tests will indicate the true performance capability of the hard disk and should provide an indication to the drive's performance potential within the platform.
In our tests, the Samsung/OCZ drive outperforms even the speedy Mtron Pro SSD thanks to strong results in the media benchmark tests. While the results with the Samsung/OCZ 64GB SSD drive are extremely impressive, they need to be tempered once the platform as a whole is tested with these applications.
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tim851 - Friday, May 16, 2008 - link
Seeing as all drives are quite close in load times I think it's safe to assume, that we've reach the apex and the load times are pretty much bottlenecked by CPU speed now.Most real world application performance numbers are pretty close these days, there aren't any dead slow hard disks anymore. Flash won't bring us more speed, but less power draw and noise.
FITCamaro - Friday, May 16, 2008 - link
I got a pair of 74GB Raptors for $150. I'm quite happy with my load times. Even in the Age of Conan beta, my load times were pretty quick.araczynski - Friday, May 16, 2008 - link
nothing mainstream about a $1000 64gb drive.piroroadkill - Friday, May 16, 2008 - link
I agree, it's definitely good, but it's not $1000 goodJarredWalton - Friday, May 16, 2008 - link
More "mainstream" than a $4000 64GB SSD. :)dingetje - Friday, May 16, 2008 - link
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