OCZ Octane Series SATA III Solid State Drive Review
CrystalDiskMark is a synthetic benchmark that tests both sequential and random small and mid-sized file transfers. It provides a quick look at best and worst case scenarios with regard to SSD performance, best case being larger sequential transfers and worse case being small, random transfers.
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The OCZ Octane drive's performance is all over the map in CrystanDiskMark. This series of tests uses incompressible data, which exposes a weakness of the SandForce based drives. As such, in the sequential read tests, the OCZ Octane is able to outpace the SandForce-based drives in terms of write throughput. With small block sizes, however, the Octane trails significantly. And matters worsened once the queue depth is increased to 32.
