ATTO Disk Benchmark

ATTO Disk Benchmark is probably one of the gold standards when it comes to basic drive performance. The software itself is fairly old but it works, measuring transfer rates at different transfer sizes for a file being 256MB in size.

Our first reading benchmark shows negligible read transfer rate differences between second generation Samsung based SSDs and Barefoot controller based drives. The Corsair P64 easily smashes through the 200MB/s wall and stays up with its bigger brother the 128GB second generation Samsung SSD branded by Super Talent.

When it comes to file writing, the Corsair P64 starts off on par with the 128GB Super Talent MasterDrive SX but loses steam as the block sizes increase. However, comparing the P64 to the same size Patriot Memory 64GB Torqx based off the new Indilinx Barefoot Controller, the two drives have very similar performance.

Crystal Disk Mark

Crystal Disk Mark is another disk benchmark software commonly used and unlike ATTO Disk Benchmark, Crystal Disk Mark is our first look at sequential transfer rates as well as 4KB and 512KB Random transfer rates.

Crystal Disk Mark paints a very similar picture. The differences in read transfer rates between the P64 and the competition are very small. We also see no difference between the empty drive and full.

When it comes to writing, the Corsair P64 goes toe-to-toe with its same sized 64GB Indilinx cousin with 4KB random writing. The P64 is a few MB/s slower with the 512KB random writing but has a significant lead with sequential writing. The 128GB SSD has the upper hand in all our benchmarks but that’s generally expected with SSDs – the bigger the drive, the better the performance. I bet if we had the P128 on hand, Corsair and Super Talent would be dancing on a very thin line of difference.

Nodesoft Disk Benchmark

There’s nothing fancy to DiskBench – I commonly use it to see how long it takes to copy a file from one source to another. Seeing as this is a hard drive review, I’m going to use the “Create File” feature and determine the speed at which the hard drive is able to create a 200MB file consisting of 100 2MB blocks.

The Corsair P64 puts up numbers closing resembling the mechanical Seagate drive and the SSDs, with the exception of the G.Skill JMicron.

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