Crucial C300 SATA 6Gb/s SSD Review
Results Continued
Published: 23rd June 2010 | Source: Crucial | Price: £297.26 |
Results Continued
PCMV
If it's Monday it must be time for PC Mark Vantage. Starting with the HDD Suite score we find the C300 is 33% better than the Corsair Nova. Given how robust the PC Mark testing is at "real world" usage this should mean some incredible transfer rates.
Looking closer at the breakdown of the PC Mark score we find the Crucial C300 living up to its billing. Any time your Mega-Bytes per Second graph requires a 300 on the x-axis you know you're dealing with some serious speed.
ATTO
Let's finish up with the ATTO disk benchmark which tests the drive using a variety of block sizes. It always follows, even with mechanical drives, that smaller block sizes perform badly and once you reach around the 64 mark the drive gets into its stride.
With the read test we find the results echo those we saw on the previous page with the Crucial C300 redefining what we consider a fast read speed to be.
On the previous page we saw Crystal Disk Mark giving us disappointing write speeds and this is backed up by ATTO. Only on the very low 1 and 8 block size test does the C300 best the Corsair Nova, and otherwise it's fairly comprehensively beaten.
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Originally Posted by name='Warzone'
Indeed but all that blazing still burns a hole in the wallet
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Ohhh the one my ex wife took off with.
did you know there is a firmware upgrade for these drives,
Release Date: 5/20/2010
Change Log:
•Improved Power Consumption
•Improved TRIM performance
•Enabled the Drive Activity Pin (Pin 11)
•Improved Robustness due to unexpected power loss
•Improved data management to reduce maximum write latency
•Improved Performance of SSD as it fills up with data
•Improved Data Integrity
I can vouch for the improvments as Im running a pair on the marvell 6gb/s controller on the RE3
Im getting 450 reads and 250 writes !!
Rick
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Originally Posted by name='fmsam'
Cheers for the review TTL,
did you know there is a firmware upgrade for these drives, Release Date: 5/20/2010 Change Log: •Improved Power Consumption •Improved TRIM performance •Enabled the Drive Activity Pin (Pin 11) •Improved Robustness due to unexpected power loss •Improved data management to reduce maximum write latency •Improved Performance of SSD as it fills up with data •Improved Data Integrity I can vouch for the improvments as Im running a pair on the marvell 6gb/s controller on the RE3 Im getting 450 reads and 250 writes !! Rick |
There are many ppl out there who are still under the impression that you cant use raid on the marvell 9128 6gb/s contoller on Rampage 3 !
Well do they really think Asus would drop such a clanger, when the board its competing against has the same chip and uses raid.
my advice to those ppl is shut up unless youve actually tried it.
http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/v...00raidsnip.png
Rick
I see you have 2 128 gb ssds i n raid 0
what knid of speeds do you get ?
No wonder you have quick speeds with raid0, I was starting to think we had missed something huge with a firmware update! Ours came with the latest FW anyways I just checked.
and crucial use garbage collection when raided and not trim, I test the drives every 3 days and they are actually getting faster, go figure !!
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