Corsair P64 Performance Series 64GB SSD (CMFSSD-64GBG2D)
Aug 9th, 2009 | By SimonIOMeter
IOMeter is the latest addition to my hard drive benchmarking suite. The software is highly customizable and what I’m doing only scratches the surface of its capability. I added IOMeter because of flaws in the original solid state drives on the market. After completing all the benchmarks on my first JMicron SSD, I popped into my laptop and made it my day-to-day drive. I found overtime the performance to become really sluggish. At first, MSN messages would take longer to appear and videos would stutter. After some digging on the net, it turned out to be a problem with the random write performance. More information on the issue at hand can be found at AnandTech.
With IOMeter, I set the program up to pepper the drive with a 1GB file with 4KB record sizes, 100% random (as opposed to 100% sequential), 50% read and 50% write for 5 minutes. I generated results for average read and write access times and average read and write transfer rates.
The P64 puts up respectable transfer rates and access times when the drive is completely empty, but with the drive full, the numbers take a big hit. The random read and write performance are at levels similar to the JMicron. However, with the 128MB cache the drive doesn’t stutter which makes the impact hard to notice during day to day use.
Boot Time
With the slower random access performance, I expected the boot time to take a bit longer and it did. It’s still less than 26 seconds which is still impressive and quick.
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??
Hey
Got the same problem, i know which 2 SSD disks you mean and i don’t know which one to get?
The cache or the read/write speed? I heard from a friend that Cache is everything these days, anyway the one you have is more expensive then the one with the faster reading/writing speed.
You already have the SDD? And wich performance does it have in case you have it already?
Greetings,
Shigato
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