Super Talent MasterDrive SX SAM28GM25S 128GB SSD
Jul 21st, 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 Super Talent 128GB MasterDrive SX falls 15MB/s slower in reading compared to the Indilinx controller drives but the slack is picked up with the write results. The Samsung architecture is a full 40MB/s faster than the Indilinx, even with the drive full, the results of the Super Talent MasterDrive SX are faster than the rest. So far, I like where this is heading.
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.
The sequential tests are significantly faster with Super Talent than with the Patriot Memory Torqx. The only time the numbers are close is with the 4KB random read where Super Talent is a few MB/s slower.
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.
Super Talent goes toe to toe with the rest of the drives; the original JMicron G.Skill drive is miles behind the rest but everyone else finishes within a few MB/s of each other.
There’s a problem with the power consumption chart. The numbers can’t be right unless you’re measuring the power consumption of the system that hosts the drives (but then that’s not clearly stated and it’s confusing)
mitrax wrote:
Sorry for the confusion, the result listed is the power consumption for the entire PC.
why are you showing the old gskill?….
why not post the top (new) drives against new ssd reviews?
also 128gb differs greatly from 64gb as cache doubles etc…
thanks
showtime wrote:
For comparison between various types of SSD’s available, not necessarily to compare different manufacturers selling the same SSD. Those numbers will be pretty much the same, it is more interesting to compare old J.Micron vs Indilinx vs Samsung for those looking to upgrade.