GSkill Falcon 128GB SATA II SSD

 

PCMark Vantage may sound like potentially the most ‘synthetic’ benchmark on the market, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. In a whitepaper published by Futuremark (developers of 3DMark and PCMark) they describe how PCMark mimics actual PC usage by performing application launches, web browsing, video playback, photo editing, file searching, and other day-to-day tasks. This potentially makes PCMark Vantage the most ‘real world’ benchmark of them all, and therefore we will be breaking down the HDD Suite benchmark into its various sections in the graphs to give you the whole picture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The above results pretty much speak for themselves. The GSkill Falcon literally blew all the competition out of the water with PCMark Vantage showing it to be by far the quick drive on test in all the tests. The closest drive and most direct competitor to the Falcon is the mighty OCZ Vertex but even that could not hold a flame to the all conquering GSkill Falcon. There just  seems to be no stopping the Falcon but thus far we have only tested synthetic tests so it’s time we had a look at some real world tests…