Intel 34nm X25-M Gen 2 SSD Performance Update

Name: Intel 34nm X25-M Gen 2 SSD Performance Update - Page 4
Brand: Intel

by Marco Chiappetta — Monday, October 26, 2009, 11:00 AM EDT

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ATTO is a more straight-forward type of disk benchmark that measures transfers across a specific volume length. It measures raw transfer rates for both reads and writes and graphs them out in an easily interpreted chart. We chose .5kb through 8192kb transfer sizes over a total max volume length of 256MB. This test was performed on blank, formatted drives with NTFS partitions.

ATTO Disk Benchmark - Read/Write Performance

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Intel 34nm X25-M Gen 2 160GB
Read / Write Performance Before

Intel 34nm X25-M Gen 2 160GB
Read / Write Performance After

The ATTO disk benchmark confirms what we saw with SANDRA on the previous page. In this test, the Intel X25-M, post update, offers about the same read performance, but significantly faster write performance. The improvements to write performance are somewhere in the neighborhood of 30%.

Tags: Intel, SSD, Flash, Storage, SATA, X-25M, TRIM, solid state

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