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Review: OCZ Summit 120GB SSD: worth the money?

by Tarinder Sandhu on 1 August 2009, 09:55 3.75

Tags: OCZ Summit SSD 120GB (1910), OCZ (NASDAQ:OCZ)

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Iometer write

IOMeter - 64KB sequential write speed
OCZ Summit SSD 120GB (1810)Samsung Spinpoint F1-DT 750GBOCZ Summit SSD 120GB (1910)OCZ Vertex SSD 120GBIntel X25-M SSD 80GBCorsair P256 SSD 256GB
158.7366.63159.31142.7870.52156.58


IOMeter - 4KB random write
OCZ Summit SSD 120GB (1810)Samsung Spinpoint F1-DT 750GBOCZ Summit SSD 120GB (1910)OCZ Vertex SSD 120GBIntel X25-M SSD 80GBCorsair P256 SSD 256GB
5.040.785.0215.4349.125.91


IOMeter - IOPS (write)
OCZ Summit SSD 120GB (1810)Samsung Spinpoint F1-DT 750GBOCZ Summit SSD 120GB (1910)OCZ Vertex SSD 120GBIntel X25-M SSD 80GBCorsair P256 SSD 256GB
1289.05198.541285.123950.02125751511.93


IOMeter - average write latency
OCZ Summit SSD 120GB (1810)Samsung Spinpoint F1-DT 750GBOCZ Summit SSD 120GB (1910)OCZ Vertex SSD 120GBIntel X25-M SSD 80GBCorsair P256 SSD 256GB
2.3315.12.330.760.241.98


IOMeter - maximum write latency
OCZ Summit SSD 120GB (1810)Samsung Spinpoint F1-DT 750GBOCZ Summit SSD 120GB (1910)OCZ Vertex SSD 120GBIntel X25-M SSD 80GBCorsair P256 SSD 256GB
23.051034.6125.779.8293.3627.94


The Intel X25-M is rather tasty at random writing, but both Summits - with firmware v1810 and v1901 - fall in-line with expected numbers. Still, the random-write speed isn't brilliant, and it's heavily overshadowed by the Intel drive.