OCZ Summit 250GB SATA2 SSD
Atto Hard Drive Benchmark
Published: 29th June 2009 | Source: OCZ | Price: £552 |
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
The OCZ Summit starts off well, beating it's stablemate, the OCZ Vertex in the 4KB test, however the tables were turned come the 32KB test and the OCZ Vertex kept the lead throughout the remainder of the ATTO benchmark. This is in stark contrast to the CrystalDiskMark results on the previous page so make of that what you will. I was particularly interested to see that the Summit appeared to struggled in comparison to the Vertex which uses a different controller with regard to writing small files in this benchmark. One thing is for sure though and that is the SSD's clearly out pace the mechanical drives of yesterday by a clear margin.
Let's see what PCMark Vantage makes of the drives...
Most Recent Comments
Great review mate....shame about the price though... is twice as much as the bloody pc i am usin...
Yeah I hear ya on the price. Still when people are paying £100 for 30GB I guess it's not so bad lol especially when you consider this is no 'run of the mill' drive.
intel or was it samsung are releasing some cheaper SSDs in the next couple of weeks. Wonder what they'll be like.
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Yeah I hear ya on the price. Still when people are paying £100 for 30GB I guess it's not so bad lol especially when you consider this is no 'run of the mill' drive.
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It greatly depends on the amount of cache the drives carry. Cheap drives usually mean less cache and I would be very hesitant before buying a drive with little/no cache as you will get stutter problems.
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Originally Posted by name='w3bbo'
It greatly depends on the amount of cache the drives carry. Cheap drives usually mean less cache and I would be very hesitant before buying a drive with little/no cache as you will get stutter problems.
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Yipes!!
That's blisteringly fast. Pant-wettingly expensive, but wow such speed.
/green with envy.
That's blisteringly fast. Pant-wettingly expensive, but wow such speed.
/green with envy.
what are ocz thinking! £500 for abit of pcb and chips, i dont think they know the world is in debt
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Originally Posted by name='w3bbo'
It greatly depends on the amount of cache the drives carry. Cheap drives usually mean less cache and I would be very hesitant before buying a drive with little/no cache as you will get stutter problems.
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Pricing is ultimately outrageous, I didn't see anything significant that seperated it from it's vertex partner.
More or less agree with the Mediocre sum-up, u would expect a cheap 3.5 adaptor to be in there as standard.
Packaging wize, I think they're very nervous about making it a good one - criticism then may be that £552, they should charge £499 and keep it very oem.
Good luck to them milking users tbh. They feel the 250g drive is worth more than 2x GTX 285.
Once data is in the RAM the harddrive is hardly touched. At that price there is no need for it. Are they stupid?
I have a suspicion also that they're looking at Ultra320 prices, controllers and drives, and thinking "if they can charge that much, so can we".
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