MyDigitalSSD SMART & BP3 mSATA SSD Review
by Kristian Vättö on January 22, 2013 1:24 PM ESTPerformance vs. Transfer Size
ATTO is a handy tool for quickly measuring performance at various transfer sizes. While IOs in real world usually happen at specific sizes (mainly 4KB), it important to get a big picture of performance. The BP3 is able to keep up with read performance, but write speed is once again lacking. The SMART is unsurprisingly on par with Intel SSD 335, which is based on the same SF-2281 controller.
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nathanddrews - Friday, January 25, 2013 - link
I have a JMicron-based G.SKILL FM-25S2S-64GB sitting around doing nothing. It has a USB port so I sometimes use it as a thumb drive. I am more than happy to donate it to the cause. Just tell me where to send it.Kristian Vättö - Saturday, January 26, 2013 - link
I bet sending the drive to Finland will cost more than the drive itself ;-) Anand should have some older SSDs, so I'll ask if he could run some testsnathanddrews - Saturday, January 26, 2013 - link
I just checked estimates from FedEx and UPS... You are not kidding! I thought it would cost about $25, not $125.Anand lives in southern USA, doesn't he? That should be very cheap. If he doesn't have one of these kickass drives, I'll send it to him. ;-)
Kristian Vättö - Saturday, January 26, 2013 - link
Anand lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. He still has JMicron based drives (just asked him) and he'll run some tests once he finds one, so no need to send one :-)nathanddrews - Saturday, January 26, 2013 - link
Cool, can't wait to see the results. Thanks, Kristian!Per Hansson - Thursday, January 31, 2013 - link
That's nice Kristian!I'm looking forward to seeing those results :)
Tjalve - Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - link
Ive actually done some testing on performance consistency for my reviews over att Nordichardware.sehttp://www.nordichardware.se/SSD-Recensioner/svens...
Theese tests are NOT done on a steady state drive though. But theese nuymbers give an indication on how I/O Latency are reflected i a real-world situation.
AND the graphs include some crappy drives like the Verbatim SSD 128GB and the Teamgroup L2 128GB.
I actually have steady state 4K Write perormance numbers (similiar to the ones here) on most drives aswell, but i havet published them just yet.
Gunbuster - Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - link
Workstation laptops. Going mSATA for OS often leaves you two other spindles for large spinning storage, another SSD or a combo of both.Why? For Hyper-V devs or content creators.
madmilk - Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - link
Workstation laptops and DIY upgrading is quite a niche scenario. Most workstation owners (that is, businesses) would just build-to-order with the SSD, instead of risking downtime just to save a couple hundred bucks.critical_ - Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - link
I own a Dell M6700 with the ADATA SX300 mSATA SSD (256GB) and 3 Hitachi 7200RPM 2.5" 1TB drives in RAID5. While I'd like to think I'm the only person in the world with this configuration, that would be silliness on my part. :)