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

Name: 7-Way SSD Round-Up: Sandforce vs. JMicron - Page 10
Brand: 7-Way

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

Next we ran the three drives through a battery of tests in PCMark Vantage from Futuremark Corp. We specifically used only the HDD Test module of this benchmark suite to evaluate all of the drives we tested. Feel free to consult Futuremark's white paper on PCMark Vantage for an understanding of what each test component entails and how it calculates its measurements. For specific information on how the HDD Test module arrives at its performance measurements, we'd encourage you to read pages 35 and 36 of the white paper.

Futuremark's PCMark Vantage

http://www.futuremark.com

We really like PCMark Vantage's HDD Performance for its real-world application measurement approach to testing. From simple Windows Vista start-up performance to data streaming from a disk drive in a game engine and video editing with Windows Movie Maker, we feel confident that these tests best illustrate the real performance profile of our SSDs in an end user/consumer PC usage model.

The first round of PCMark Vantage tests doesn't reveal anything new. The SandForce drives continued to perform similarly with the OCZ Vertex 2 showing slight leads in a couple of tests, but all of the differences between the SandForce drives are well within the margins of error for these tests. The JMicron based Patriot drive, however, can't match the performance of the others.

Once again, the new 128GB drives from OCZ and Corsair perform almost identically to their 100GB counterparts.

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