Intel SSD 320 Series 300GB Solid State Drive Review

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

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PCMark Vantage HDD

We really like PCMark Vantage's HDD Performance module for its pseudo real-world application measurement approach to testing. PCMark Vantage offers a trace-based measurement of system response times under various scripted workloads of traditional client / desktop system operation. From simple Windows start-up performance to data streaming from a disk 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.

This series of Vantage tests will stress read performance in real-world usage models, with a broad mix of sequential and random read transactions of both small and large file sizes.

Futuremark's PCMark Vantage

The new Intel SSD 320 series drive performs well in the trace-based PCMark Vantage tests, trading victories with all of the drives, except for the SandForce SF-2000 series based OCZ Vertex 3s.

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

Intel SSD 320 Series 300GB Solid State Drive Review

PCMark Vantage HDD

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