Super Talent MasterDrive SX SAM28GM25S 128GB SSD
Jul 21st, 2009 | By SimonSisoft Sandra – File System
Another common benchmarking program, we have SiSoft Sandra File System Benchmark. The File System Benchmark gives us a quick glance at the overall performance and whether we have a new or full drive, the performance is both consistent and miles ahead of the JMicron SSD or conventional platter hard drives.
We can see that the difference between a brand new drive’s performance and one that has been filled is very small. The only exception is with the random write results where the Super Talent MasterDrive SX has a 55MB/s gap between new and full. We don’t see this large of a difference in any other benchmark. The random access time is also one of the lowest ever recorded. The MasterDrive SX’s transfer rates are all slightly higher than the Patriot Memory Indilinx based Torqx SSD and clearly beat out the G.Skill JMicron SSD and my Seagate mechanical drive.
SiSoft Sandra – Physical Disk
The Physical Disk Benchmark benchmarks the hard disks and not the file system, meaning the graph below compares the performance of the physical disk to the storage adapter, unlike the SiSoft Sandra File System benchmarks which shows performance between the file system itself and the adapter.
The access time skyrockets to areas generally not seen by hard drives, I’m unsure why this was the case. Regardless, the MasterDrive SX’s index is still ahead of the rest.
HD Tune
HD Tune is another hard disk utility to determine the performance of your drive. HD Tune runs a few tests to provide a transfer rate (minimum, maximum and average). It also trends the performance through the entire disk and gives you the access time, burst rate and CPU usage.
New Drive
Full Drive
For the first time we see a big drop between in performance between a new and full drive. It’s about 30MB/s across the entire drive but even at the lower end of the numbers the MasterDrive SX performs very well against its Indilinx competition.
HD Tach
HD Tach is a low level hardware benchmark for random access read and writes. The performance numbers are quite similar to HD Tune.
New Drive
Full Drive
Same story as above, a 40MB/s drop across the drive but it is a very consistent performance unlike the ups and downs noted in the Torqx.
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.