Intel Solid-State Drive DC S3700 Review

Name: Intel Solid-State Drive DC S3700
Brand: Intel

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT

We really like PCMark 7's Secondary Storage benchmark module for its pseudo real-world application measurement approach to testing. PCMark 7 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 editing with Windows Movie Maker, we feel more 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.

Futuremark's PCMark 7 Secondary Storage

http://www.futuremark.com

Although they're not necessarily designed for standard desktop workloads, the new Intel DC S3700 drives excelled in the trace-based PCMark 7 secondary storage benchmark. The 800GB drive put up the best scores we've seen from a single SSD in this benchmark and the 200GB model followed closely behind. In fact, the 200GB drive put up the exact same score as the SandForce-based Intel SSD 520, which was previously the fastest consumer-class drive we had tested.

Tags: Intel, SSD, Storage, SATA, S3700

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