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.

I was surprised by the Read and Write transfer rates as these are the fastest I’ve seen. They’re twice as fast as the Corsair P64 and the full drive performs at the same speed as a new G.Skill Falcon.

Boot Time

With fast random read and write speeds, I was not surprised to see the boot times drop compared to the competition. The drive isn’t as fast as the more expensive OCZ Vertex but it spanks the rest of the competition around.

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