facebook rss twitter

Review: Corsair P256 256GB Solid State Drive: designed for performance junkies

by Tarinder Sandhu on 18 May 2009, 05:00 4.0

Tags: X25-M, Samsung Spinpoint F1-DT 750GB, Corsair P256 256GB, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), Samsung (005935.KS), Corsair

Quick Link: HEXUS.net/qasbe

Add to My Vault: x

h2benchw

h2benchw is another benchmark that delivers accurate numbers relating to storage speed. We're using version 3.13 here.

h2benchw - sequential read speed
Samsung Spinpoint F1-DT 750GBIntel X25-M SSD 80GBCorsair P256 SSD 256GB
68.32199.53167.52


Sequential read speed mirrors that of Iometer, albeit a little lower.

h2benchw - maximum read speed (interface)
Samsung Spinpoint F1-DT 750GBIntel X25-M SSD 80GBCorsair P256 SSD 256GB
172.17147.25181.18


The buffer test takes bursting into account. There's something awry with the X25-M's results, no matter how many times we ran it on two separate platforms; it should never be lower than the sequential read speed.

h2benchw - average read latency
Samsung Spinpoint F1-DT 750GBIntel X25-M SSD 80GBCorsair P256 SSD 256GB
13.690.140.18


Yup, seen this before.

Write

h2benchw - sequential write speed
Samsung Spinpoint F1-DT 750GBIntel X25-M SSD 80GBCorsair P256 SSD 256GB
57.4568.99140.99


Moving on and the Corsair P256 write performance is confirmed here, able to push 8.5GB per minute on to the cells.

h2benchw - maximum write speed (interface)
Samsung Spinpoint F1-DT 750GBIntel X25-M SSD 80GBCorsair P256 SSD 256GB
148.2882.53161.14


h2benchw - average write latency
Samsung Spinpoint F1-DT 750GBIntel X25-M SSD 80GBCorsair P256 SSD 256GB
6.970.080.23