Micron RealSSD P320h PCI Express SSD Review
Test System, SANDRA Disk and File System Benchmarks
Our Test Methodologies: Under each test condition, the SSDs tested here were installed as secondary volumes in our testbed, with a standard spinning hard disk for the OS and benchmark software installations. The SSDs were left blank without partitions wherever possible, unless a test required them to be partitioned and formatted, as was the case with our ATTO, CrystalDiskMark benchmark tests, as well as IOMeter runs. Windows firewall, automatic updates and screen savers were all disabled before testing. In all test runs, we rebooted the system and waited several minutes for drive activity to settle before invoking a test.
** Please also note that the Micron P320h card was configured in high performance mode, for maximum read/write performance, though lower power modes are also available.
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Motherboard - Graphics Card - Memory - Audio - Storage-
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Hardware Used: Intel Core i7-3960X Intel DX79 Si, X79 chipset NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 16GB Kingston DDR3-1600 Integrated on board WD Caviar Black 1TB (OS Drive) OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480GB PCIe LSI WarpDrive 300GB PCIe OCZ RevoDrive X2 240GB PCIe Fusion-io ioDrive 160GB Fusion-io ioXtreme 80GB PCIe Intel SSD 910 800GB PCIe SSD |
OS - Chipset Drivers - DirectX - Video Drivers - |
Relevant Software: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Latest Intel Inf package DirectX 11 Latest NVIDIA WHQL Benchmarks Used: IOMeter 2010 ATTO v2.46 CrystalDiskMark v3.01 Alex-IS AS-SSD Benchmark 1.6.42 SiSoftware Sandra 2012 |
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For our first 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 on all drives and read and write performance metrics are detailed below.
SANDRA's File System benchmark exhibits combined Read/Write throughput on blank, formatted volumes .
