Testing – ATTO, CrystalDiskMark & Sandra
ATTO Disk Benchmark is our next test which measures transfer rates across specific lengths.
Looking at the results you can see the drive is on par with a read speed of 191MB/s and write speed of 55MB/s. CrystalDiskMark has a sequential read / write test as well as a 512k and 4k random read / write test.
Once again the drive was right on! Our final test is Sandra’s Physical Disks benchmark, which tests the drive’s bandwidth and access time.
Wow to our surprise this drive performed way over the advertised speeds giving us a drive index of 219.54MB/s!
Yes, Kingston, yes. This is a gateway drug.
I got my hands on a 128 GB Kingston SSD and am booting Ubuntu Linux on it in 12 seconds. While my Windows 7 installation is on a SATA HDD because I don't particularly care about boot time for it, my games are stored on the other partition of the SSD–I want game load times to be nothing. UT3 loads in less than 30 seconds. Mirror's Edge levels load in ~10 seconds.
How about 2 * 30GB for RAID 0? You should be able to boost up speed further more~ and that won't cost you much. Maybe US$180 only.
How about 2 * 30GB for RAID 0? You should be able to boost up speed further more~ and that won't cost you much. Maybe US$180 only.