We like PCMark's Storage 2.0 benchmark module for its real-world application measurement approach to testing.
PCMark offers a trace-based measurement of system response times under various scripted workloads of traditional client / desktop system operation. From simple application start-up performance, to data streaming from a drive in a game engine, and video and photo editing with
Adobe applications, we are comfortable that these tests reasonably illustrate the performance profile of SSDs in an end-user / consumer PC usage model, more so than a purely synthetic transfer test.
The trace-based PCMark tests once again show the Asura Genesis Xtreme competing favorable with some of the better consumer SSDs on the market, but ultimately finishing right about in the middle of the pack.
