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Gone in a Flash - 5 Solid State Drives Compared

By Vincent Chang & Vijay Anand - 23 Jul 2009

Results - CrystalMark 2004R3

Results - CrystalMark 2004R3

We start off our benchmarking with CrystalMark, focusing only on the hard drive tests. From the overall score, the Kingston E-Series had a slight lead over the two SSDs from OCZ and Vertex that uses the Indilinx controller. Since this score is derived from the read and write performance of the drives, both sustained and random, the Intel X25-M is held back by its mediocre write performance despite its fast reads. Meanwhile, the Mtron SSD was marginally ahead of the Western Digital hard drives in the overall score. If anything, these results showed that the specifications for these drives can only be a rough guide to its actual performance.

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