Patriot Memory 64GB Torqx SSD
Jul 10th, 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 Torqx goes toe to toe with the other Indilinx SSDs and for the most part comes out on top with every transfer size. The “full” Torqx is able to maintain speeds above the already aged G.Skill JMicron SSD and mechanical Seagate SSD. However, we do see a drop in speed compared to an empty or new drive.
Crystal Disk Mark
Crystal Disk Mark is another disk benchmark software commonly used; unlike ATTO Disk Benchmark, Crystal Disk Mark is our first look at sequential transfer rates as well as 4KB and 512KB Random transfer rates.
A similar story is painted with Crystal Disk Mark. The random 4KB and 512KB performance results for both read and write are a small step behind the OCZ and G.Skill Indilinx. Do note that I modified the testing parameters for Crystal Disk Mark for the Torqx and changed the file size from 100MB to 500MB. With this I was able to a better average number and actually pulled a sequential read rate.
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.
Nothing new here.
The power graph doesn’t seem to be right on page 4. Can the power really be 200 watts? Or was it 2.xx watts? Also, I would imagine the idle power consumption differs greatly from the loaded power consumption for SSD drives and not so much for magnetic drives. But I don’t see it here. Am I missing something?
The power reading for the the PSU, not just the hard drive. The numbers reported are from my power meter.
here are some gskill falcon 64gb (new) facts
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