7-Way SSD Round-Up: Sandforce vs. JMicron

Name: 7-Way SSD Round-Up: Sandforce vs. JMicron - Page 6
Brand: 7-Way

by Marco Chiappetta — Friday, June 25, 2010, 10:00 AM EDT

For our next set of tests, we used SiSoft SANDRA, the the System ANalyzer, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant. Here, we used the Physical Disk test suite and provided the results from our comparison SSDs. The benchmarks were run without formatting and read and write performance metrics are detailed below. We have also included SANDRA's detailed graph so you are able to see how the drive performs over time along with the average rated result.

SiSoft SANDRA 2010

Synthetic Benchmarks

OCZ Agility 2 100GB (Read)	OCZ Vertex 2 100GB (Read)
Corsair Force 100GB (Read)	OWC Mercury Extreme Pro RE 100GB (Read)
Patriot Zephyr 128GB (Read)

Corsair Force 120GB
(Read)

OCZ Vertex 2 120GB
(Read)

SiSoft SANDRA physical disk benchmark has all of the SandForce based drives performing at near identical levels, with only a few MB/s separating the drives. The JMicron based Patriot Zephyr, however, trailed the others by about 9% in the read badwidth test.

OCZ Agility 2 100GB (Write)	OCZ Vertex 2 100GB (Write)
Corsair Force 100GB (Write)	OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 100GB (Write)
Patriot Zephyr 128GB (Write)

Corsair Force 120GB
(Write)

OCZ Vertex 2 120GB
(Write)

SANDRA's physical disk write performance test tells a similar story. The SandForce based drives are all tightly grouped, once again, and the drives hold onto a significant lead over the JMicron based Patriot Zephyr.

Interestingly, the updated 120GB variants from OCZ and Corsair exhibit significantly lower write performance accorging to SANDRA.

Tags: SSD, OCZ, Corsair, Storage, SATA, OWC, Patriot, solid state

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com