GSkill Falcon 128GB SATA II SSD
ATTO Disk Benchmark
ATTO Disk Benchmark may be one of the oldest hard disk benchmark utilities still in service, but many would argue that it still remains the best. Unlike HDTune Pro and many other benchmarking utilities, ATTO can be configured to write up to 256MB of data to the disk in file sizes varying from 5KB to 8MB. This is especially useful for SSD drives and indeed RAID configurations where performance can be heavily reliant on the cluster size of the disk. All tests were run with the default settings of 0.5KB through 8192KB transfer sizes with the total length of 256MB. For clearer comparative purposes, the key stages of the benchmark are included in the graphs below:
Results Analysis
Here is where the GSkill Falcon begins to stretch it’s silicon legs. Despite having a lower read speed than the OCZ Vertex, the GSkill falcon managed a blistering 261MB/s which is much faster than the 231MB/s the Vertex managed. Not only that but the Falcon also managed some amazing write speeds, even beating our previous best model, the OCZ Summit.
Let’s see what PCMark Vantage makes of the drives…
