Results - AS SSD Benchmark

AS SSD 1.7.4739 Results

AS SSD is a benchmark that uses non-compressible and completely random data. What this means is that the drives using the SandForce SF-2281 controller cannot compress the data first, which takes away one of the strong advantages of this controller. Therefore this is a useful benchmark because drives that use the SF-2281 controller don't gain an upper hand.

Looking at the Copy benchmark, we can see that the new SanDisk Extreme II SSD is a better performing drive than the outgoing Extreme SSD, recording at least 20% faster copying speeds across the three scenarios. Moving on, we noted that the Extreme II SSD also recorded impressive sequential read and write speeds and its results on the crucial 4K, 64 threads workload were decent and much improved compared to the older Extreme SSD. However, its write performance on the 4K, 64 threads workload was still significantly poorer than other comparable drives.