OCZ Technology 64GB Agility Series SATA II Solid State Drive
Sep 29th, 2009 | By SimonATTO 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.
The OCZ Agility was near the bottom of the pack compared to the rest of the drive. However, the spread is pretty minimal and one that won’t greatly impact performance.
The Agility bounces back with the write results claiming first place at all the large transfer sizes. It becomes more on par with the Corsair P64 at the 4KB transfer size. The spread between an empty and new drive is pretty big and for most users you’ll likely see the performance results in pink after owning the drive and filling it up. This is still significantly better than JMicron controlled drives and is still faster than my Patriot Memory Torqx which also uses the Indilinx Controller with Samsung NAND chips.
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.
The random read results are consistent with all the other top performing SSDs I’ve owned. The sequential numbers are a touch better than the other Indilinx drive I’ve owned.
I could say there’s a similar story to be told with the write results but the fact is the Agility blew the competition away. Even the full Agility performed faster than the new similar sized SSDs made by Patriot Memory, G.Skill and OCZ’s Vertex.
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.
Given the results from Crystal Disk Mark, I’m not surprised by what Disk Benchmark had reported. The empty drive blew the competition away and the full drive produced respectable results.