Intel SSD 320 Series 300GB Solid State Drive Review

Name: Intel SSD 320 Series 300GB Solid State Drive Review - Page 3
Brand: Intel

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 01:00 PM EDT

Next we ran 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 the drives and read and write performance metrics are detailed below.

SiSoft SANDRA 2011

Synthetic HDD Benchmarking

The Intel SSD 320 series drive smoked the other SATA II-based drives we tested in SANDRA's Physical Disk Read and Write benchmarks, including the SandForce-based OCZ Vertex 2, which has been an immensely popular drive with enthusiasts. In light of the current-gen SATA III / 6G drives though, the SSD 320 series drive's performance isn't nearly as impressive.

Tags: Intel, SSD, Storage, solid state, SATA II, 320

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