IOMeter

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.

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