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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 write

IOMeter - 64KB sequential write speed
Samsung Spinpoint F1-DT 750GBOCZ Summit SSD 120GB (1910)Crucial CT256M225 SSD 256GBOCZ Vertex SSD 120GBIntel X25-M SSD 80GBCorsair P256 SSD 256GB
66.63159.31143.28142.7870.52156.58


IOMeter - 4KB random write
Samsung Spinpoint F1-DT 750GBOCZ Summit SSD 120GB (1910)Crucial CT256M225 SSD 256GBOCZ Vertex SSD 120GBIntel X25-M SSD 80GBCorsair P256 SSD 256GB
0.785.0215.4215.4349.125.91


IOMeter - IOPS (write)
Samsung Spinpoint F1-DT 750GBOCZ Summit SSD 120GB (1910)Crucial CT256M225 SSD 256GBOCZ Vertex SSD 120GBIntel X25-M SSD 80GBCorsair P256 SSD 256GB
198.541285.123947.13950.02125751511.93


IOMeter - average write latency
Samsung Spinpoint F1-DT 750GBOCZ Summit SSD 120GB (1910)Crucial CT256M225 SSD 256GBOCZ Vertex SSD 120GBIntel X25-M SSD 80GBCorsair P256 SSD 256GB
15.12.330.760.760.241.98


IOMeter - maximum write latency
Samsung Spinpoint F1-DT 750GBOCZ Summit SSD 120GB (1910)Crucial CT256M225 SSD 256GBOCZ Vertex SSD 120GBIntel X25-M SSD 80GBCorsair P256 SSD 256GB
1034.6125.779.779.8293.3627.94


Randomised write performance is good when compared to the all-Samsung-powered drives, but the first-generation Intel still leads the way.