Pragmatic tests
| Drive test - 6.15GB large-file read speed | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time in seconds, lower is better | ||
| Crucial CT64M225 SSD 64GB | Samsung HD103UJ 1TB | Corsair X128 SSD 128GB |
| 65.1 | 74.2 | 64.5 |
In this instance we're manually transferring files from and to the host Seagate 500GB mechanical hard drive.
| Drive test - 6.15GB large-file write speed | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time in seconds, lower is better | ||
| Crucial CT64M225 SSD 64GB | Samsung HD103UJ 1TB | Corsair X128 SSD 128GB |
| 65 | 73.8 | 64.8 |
There's nothing much in it with respect to SSDs, with the 1TB drive just a little behind. The lack of performance delta is caused by the read/write speed of the host drive.
| Drive test - 6.15GB large-file write speed (SSD) | |
|---|---|
| Time in seconds, lower is better | |
| Crucial CT64M225 SSD 64GB | Corsair X128 SSD 128GB |
| 62.9 | 40.1 |
What we've done here is conduct the same test but with the SSDs as the host drive. Moving files from the Corsair X128 to the Crucial 64M225 takes over a minute, averaging around 97MB/s. Writing them the other way, from Crucial to Corsair, takes significantly less time, averaging some 153MB/s. The results corroborate the CrystalDiskMark findings.
| Drive test - 123MB small-file write speed | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time in seconds, lower is better | ||
| Crucial CT64M225 SSD 64GB | Samsung HD103UJ 1TB | Corsair X128 SSD 128GB |
| 2.9 | 4.9 | 2.6 |
| Drive test - 123MB small-file read speed | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time in seconds, lower is better | ||
| Crucial CT64M225 SSD 64GB | Samsung HD103UJ 1TB | Corsair X128 SSD 128GB |
| 1.7 | 3.1 | 1.6 |
Small-file transfer is quicker on the SSDs, but it's no deal-breaker.
| Writing 25,868 files (3.72GB) back onto drive | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time in seconds, lower is better | ||
| Crucial CT64M225 SSD 64GB | Samsung HD103UJ 1TB | Corsair X128 SSD 128GB |
| 114.5 | 119.6 | 96.2 |
Copying a folder containing nearly 26,000 files back onto the drive(s) stresses almost every facet of performance. The Corsair X128 is the fastest, completing the task well under two minutes. Surprisingly, the 64GB Crucial isn't much faster than a 1TB mechanical drive. The cases where it would be, in a small-file random read/write scenario, isn't hugely common in the client environment.
