Corsair P64 Performance Series 64GB SSD (CMFSSD-64GBG2D)
Aug 9th, 2009 | By SimonThere’s not much to share with installation. The drive gets installed like any other and at most you may wish to obtain a 2.5″ to 3.5″ bracket for a sturdy installation. Once installed, I compared the power consumption of the P64 to a few other SSDs and a conventional 500GB Seagate hard drive. With no surprise, the SSDs are a few watts below the conventional hard drive. Please note, the power consumption numbers are for my entire system. The difference you see if between my various SSD.
I will be testing the Corsair P64 on my test bed as the primary drive with the OS installed on it. Here is my system specification:
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- CPU: Intel C2D Q6600 (G0 SLACR L731B434) @ 2.71 GHz
- MB: Asus P5E3-Dlx Wifi-AP Edition
- GPU: Sapphire HD 4850 X2 Catalyst
- RAM: Aeneon 2×2GB XTune DDR3-1600 (AXH860UD20-16H) @ 1800Mhz 10-10-10-30 1T
- PSU: Cooler Master Real Power Pro 850W
- CPU Cooling: Thermalright HR-01 w/ 120mm Antec Tri-Cool Fan
- PWM/NB/SB Cooling: Stock/Stock/Stock
- OS: Windows Vista x64
Hard Drives
- Corsair 64GB P64 (CMFSSD-64GBG2D)
- Super Talent 128GB MasterDrive SX (SAM28GM25S)
- Patriot Memory 64GB Torqx SSD (PFZ64GS25SSDR)
- G.Skill FM-25S2S-64GB
- Seagate Barracuda SATA 500GB 7200.11 (ST3500320AS)
To test out the drive we’ll be using DiskBench, Crystal DiskMark, SiSoft Sandra, HD Tune 3.10, ATTO, HDTach, IOMeter and Boot Timer. All benchmarks were executed 5 times and the average result was recorded. The system was reset between each benchmark.
To add a little flavour to the review, I’m going to benchmark the Corsair P64 twice – once when the drive has only Windows Vista and the benchmarking software installed, denoted “New” in the benchmarks, and once when the drive is completely full with files then deleted to make room for the benchmark test files. These results will be denoted “Full”. I’m doing this to see what the performance impact is once the drive is full of files.
I’m buying just this Corsair 64GB model. I hope that makes all the difference, because an investment is high for such a low capacity. The gap needs to actually exist in the speed of all applications on the disk.
Had the option of another series SSD Corsair, but as this has 128MB Cache ended up choosing this model. Others have only 64MB Cache, however, have read up to 270mb / s and recording of up to 130MB / S while the P64 model offers up to 220MB of read / write S and up to 120MB / S.
I hope I have made the right choice at the time to prioritize the most CACHE 128MB, not just the reading speed.
I intend to use it on my ThinkPad Lenovo Y430 Laptop (T9300 C2D 2.50ghz / 6mb L2 / FSB 800 – 4 GB DDR2 800 Memory) so far with a 250GB SATA 5400RPM HD.
I made a good investment in the choice of SSD HD CORSAIR P64??