Patriot Memory 64GB Torqx SSD
Jul 10th, 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 it into my laptop and made it my day-to-day drive. I found over time that the performance became 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.
Our random read and write times at 4KB blocks are significantly higher than the mechanical drive and JMicron SSD but we don’t quite reach the performance level of the OCZ or G.Skill Indilinx controller.
Boot Time
With slightly slower random read and write performance, it is only expected for the boot time to be a touch slower than the competition.
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.
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