Micron RealSSD C300 SATA III SSD Review

Name: Micron RealSSD C300 SATA III SSD Review - Page 4
Brand: Micron

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, February 18, 2010, 12:25 PM EDT

For our next set of tests, we used 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 and read and write performance metrics are detailed below. We have also included SANDRA's detailed graph so you are able to see how the drive performs over time along with the average rated result.

SiSoft SANDRA 2009

Synthetic Benchmarks

Micron RealSSD C300 (SATA 6G) Read	Micron RealSSD C300 (SATA 3G) Read
Intel X25-M Gen 2 160GB Read	OCZ Vertex 120GB Read

The Micron C300 blew past all comers with regard to read performance according to SiSoft SANDRA, whether connected to a SATA III or SATA II inteface. In the SATA III tests, the drive moved over 340MB/s.

Micron RealSSD C300 (SATA 6G) Write	Micron RealSSD C300 (SATA 3G) Write
Intel X25-M Gen 2 160GB Write	OCZ Vertex 120GB Write

Write performance was also very good with the Micron C300. Here, the drive was comparable, but somewhat faster than the OCZ Vertex when connected to a SATA II port, but connecting it to SATA III added another 10MB/s or so of write throughput.

Tags: SSD, Micron, Storage, Data, drive, solid state, Crucial

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