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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Dobs - Saturday, May 17, 2008 - link
I like the sound of that.. a Hybrid with built in Raid (or equiv).So.... I'll have the Samsung F1 SSD3 500GB Hybrid thanks!
That's the one that includes 1 308GB platter and 3 64GB SSD's (in Raid0 equiv)
mechBgon - Friday, May 16, 2008 - link
"We waivered about presenting either drive an award."I think you meant "wavered."
Baked - Friday, May 16, 2008 - link
I know you guys get all the freebies you want, do a RAID-5 w/ these drives now!Juddog - Friday, May 16, 2008 - link
The main advantage here IMHO is the power required, heat dissipation, noise level and MTBF. Perfect for notebooks. Working as a tech I see notebook drive failures all the time. I see plenty of executive level people with notebooks that would gladly pay a few hundred extra to get a much greater extended battery time from lower power usage, and greater data protection from the MTBF, not to mention the shock levels that these drives typically have is much greater than that of a hard drive.This is excellent for people who travel around a lot and carry expensive data on their laptops. Top it off with data encryption technologies that more companies are moving into, and the access time plays an even greater roll.
strikeback03 - Friday, May 16, 2008 - link
IIRC, the tests in the Macbook Air at least showed little to no advantage in battery life from the SSD. The durability though would be nice. I personally wouldn't consider one until we can get drives upwards of 100GB for under $500.JarredWalton - Saturday, May 17, 2008 - link
MacBook Air SSD testing was actually http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3226&a...">quite good. I think you're probably remembering the more recent http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=328...">128GB SSD follow-up where the extra performance and size of the SSD made power requirements about equal to a standard HDD.Ender17 - Friday, May 16, 2008 - link
Any results on the snapiness with these drives as seen here?http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=328...">http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=328...
tshen83 - Friday, May 16, 2008 - link
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...Too bad it is out of stock. I hope STT makes more of it. 299 for 30GB of 120MB/read speed.
JarredWalton - Friday, May 16, 2008 - link
But only 40MB/s writes.semisonic9 - Friday, May 16, 2008 - link
...over it's competition? What's up with that? Would have expected 7200.11 drives, or 1tb drives, to be faster.