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Crucial CT256M225 256GB SSD review. Keen pricing making sense?

by Tarinder Sandhu on 20 August 2009, 08:43 3.6

Tags: Crucial CT256M225 SSD 256GB, Crucial Technology (NASDAQ:MU)

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Iometer read

We've deliberately included the OCZ Vertex 128GB drive next to the Crucial 256GB SSD because both share the Indilinx controller and 64MB of on-drive cache.

IOMeter - 64KB sequential read speed
Samsung Spinpoint F1-DT 750GBOCZ Summit SSD 120GB (1910)Crucial CT256M225 SSD 256GBOCZ Vertex SSD 120GBIntel X25-M SSD 80GBCorsair P256 SSD 256GB
78.5173.56202.22196.5212.36173.97


IOMeter - 4KB random read speed
Samsung Spinpoint F1-DT 750GBOCZ Summit SSD 120GB (1910)Crucial CT256M225 SSD 256GBOCZ Vertex SSD 120GBIntel X25-M SSD 80GBCorsair P256 SSD 256GB
0.4850.3128.5228.1957.9755.48


IOMeter - IOPS (read)
Samsung Spinpoint F1-DT 750GBOCZ Summit SSD 120GB (1910)Crucial CT256M225 SSD 256GBOCZ Vertex SSD 120GBIntel X25-M SSD 80GBCorsair P256 SSD 256GB
122.3812878.573017216.381483914204.1


IOMeter - average read latency
Samsung Spinpoint F1-DT 750GBOCZ Summit SSD 120GB (1910)Crucial CT256M225 SSD 256GBOCZ Vertex SSD 120GBIntel X25-M SSD 80GBCorsair P256 SSD 256GB
24.510.230.410.420.20.21


IOMeter - maximum read latency
Samsung Spinpoint F1-DT 750GBOCZ Summit SSD 120GB (1910)Crucial CT256M225 SSD 256GBOCZ Vertex SSD 120GBIntel X25-M SSD 80GBCorsair P256 SSD 256GB
46.460.721.321.420.771.07


As you can see, they performance almost identically to one another.

Both drives are a little slow with respect to random read speed, though.