OWC Mercury Accelsior 480GB PCI-E Solid State Drive Review

Testing – Anvil & AS SSD
The next test is Anvil Storage Utilities, which is a really great piece of software.  The SSD benchmark gives you scores for both read and write as well as a combined score.

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The results from Anvil are pretty much on par with what we are getting on other tests.

Our final test is the AS SSD Benchmark. This benchmark contains four synthetic as well as three practice tests. It also not only shows you the transfer speeds but also IOPS.

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Again we see a very good read speed result, but the write speed is a little low.  Again with testing brand new hardware we do not know how it is going to perform when testing with different benchmarking software.

The AS SSD program has a copy benchmark included with it.  This benchmark shows you the speed and how long it would take to load an ISO, Program and Game.  Here are the results from that test, lower times are better.

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AS SSD also has a compression benchmark included.  Here are the results from that test.

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